English Poetry. Joyce Kilmer. Roses. Джойс Килмер.

Roses

(For Katherine Bregy)

I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring,
For I would make a posy, a posy for the King.
I got an hundred roses, the loveliest there be,
From the white rose vine and the pink rose bush and from the red 
rose tree.
But when I took my posy and laid it at His feet
I found He had His roses a million times more sweet.
There was a scarlet blossom upon each foot and hand,
And a great pink rose bloomed from His side for the healing of the 
land.
Now of this fair and awful King there is this marvel told,
That He wears a crown of linked thorns instead of one of gold.
Where there are thorns are roses, and I saw a line of red,
A little wreath of roses around His radiant head.
A red rose is His Sacred Heart, a white rose is His face,
And His breath has turned the barren world to a rich and flowery 
place.
He is the Rose of Sharon, His gardener am I,
And I shall drink His fragrance in Heaven when I die.

Joyce Kilmer’s other poems:

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Robert Buchanan (Роберт Бьюкенен) Roses (“Sad, and sweet, and wise”)

George Eliot (Джордж Элиот) Roses (“You love the roses–so do I. I wish”)

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