Sidney Lanier

Here you will find the Poem To ----, With A Rose of poet Sidney Lanier

To ----, With A Rose

I asked my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay
 Upon my Lady's natal day.

 Then said my heart to me:
`Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee
 What fits thy Love most lovingly.'

 This gift that learning shows;
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
 I send a rose unto a Rose.