Poem With A Bouquet Of Twelve Roses Lyrics

Vachel Lindsay

Here you will find the Poem With A Bouquet Of Twelve Roses of poet Vachel Lindsay

With A Bouquet Of Twelve Roses

I saw Lord Buddha towering by my gate 
Saying: 'Once more, good youth, I stand and wait.' 
Saying: 'I bring you my fair Law of Peace 
And from your withering passion full release; 
Release from that white hand that stabbed you so. 
The road is calling. With the wind you go, 
Forgetting her imperious disdain ? 
Quenching all memory in the sun and rain.' 

'Excellent Lord, I come. But first,' I said, 
'Grant that I bring her these twelve roses red. 
Yea, twelve flower kisses for her rose-leaf mouth, 
And then indeed I go in bitter drouth 
To that far valley where your river flows 
In Peace, that once I found in every rose.'

Vachel Lindsay

With A Bouquet Of Twelve Roses

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