In The Fields
July 5, 2023Grizzel Hume
July 5, 2023I Went To Look For Roses
I went to look for roses
When snow was on the ground,
Alas, a wither’d thorn-bush
Was all the flowers I found!
I thought of summer-blossoms
Alight with dews of morn,
And down I sate me weeping
Beside the barren thorn.
Out spake a grey-hair’d neighbour,—
“O madness! not to know
The time of living roses
Is not the time of snow.”
Fie on such foolish comfort!
It never dried one tear;
I am weeping for my roses
Because they are not here.
Menella Bute Smedley
Menella Bute Smedley (1820-1877) was an English poet and writer known for her romantic and sentimental poetry. Her works include "The Fisherman's Bride" and "Hilda, the Bride of the Isle."