Rose Song

by Anne Reeve Aldrich (1866-1892)

Plant, above my lifeless heart   Crimson roses, red as blood.As if the love, pent there so long   Were pouring forth its flood.

Then, through them, my heart may tell,   Its Past of Love and Grief,And I shall feel them grow from it,   And know a vague relief.

Through rotting shroud shall feel their roots,   And unto them myself shall grow,And when I blossom at her feet,   She, on that day, shall know!