Hearts and Flowers - Romanticism In Rime Royal

If roses alabaster white e'er deign
To cast in crystal eyes one purposed song,
Dare tenderly to grasp the bluest vein
O, golden tears, a reddened heart ere long.
For blown, a wind of breath, whisked far along
Does shimmer in all time stood silent--still,
And by the lunar light, a broken will.

Come morning, to the rose in bed, love spoke
A cantillation voiced in bluebird tongue
How doth thy petals rise with blood of oak?
How dost thy stem ascend the fairest rung?
On heights o' heaven hast the soul been hung
For all, for all, to bare no droplet spared
O Life, in alabaster love repaired.

- Aron Jacob
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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February 26, 2014 at 10:03 PM
Aron ,. Congratulations:) goodnight ~SKAT~
Johnson Avatar
February 16, 2014 at 6:01 PM
Romanticism personified. Love< Joyce
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February 16, 2014 at 1:52 PM
Congratulations on your win and on the piece set in the language of the era of romanticism.
Mehta Avatar
February 16, 2014 at 3:50 AM
Beautiful piece on Romanticism, Congrats on the win, aron
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