Christina Georgina Rossetti

Here you will find the Poem An October Garden of poet Christina Georgina Rossetti

An October Garden

In my Autumn garden I was fain 
To mourn among my scattered roses; 
Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses 
To Autumn's languid sun and rain 
When all the world is on the wane! 
Which has not felt the sweet constraint of June, 
Nor heard the nightingale in tune. 


Broad-faced asters by my garden walk, 
You are but coarse compared with roses: 
More choice, more dear that rosebud which uncloses 
Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk, 
That least and last which cold winds balk; 
A rose it is though least and last of all, 
A rose to me though at the fall.