Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
Waller read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\n Go, lovely Rose\nby Edmund Waller (1606 \u2013 1687)\n \nGo, lovely Rose\u2014 \nTell her that wastes her time and me, \n That now she knows, \nWhen I resemble her to thee, \nHow sweet and fair she seems to be. \n \n Tell her that 's young, \nAnd shuns to have her graces spied, \n That hadst thou sprung \nIn deserts where no men abide, \nThou must have uncommended died. \n \n Small is the worth \nOf beauty from the light retired: \n Bid her come forth, \nSuffer herself to be desired, \nAnd not blush so to be admired. \n \n Then die\u2014that she \nThe common fate of all things rare \n May read in thee; \nHow small a part of time they share \nThat are so wondrous sweet and fair!