The Rose Across the Room

From across the room, how heaven did show

a rose whose redolence Heav'n only knows,

Radiance personified, heaven’s glow.

To know your fragrance, I pine, o sweet rose.

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As the moon shines above the darkened seas,

the seas of people dim by your sweet light.

Now, from across the room, I feel love’s breeze.

From across the room, I melt at your sight.

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Her face, like summer nights’ sweet honeyed moons

Her lashes: petals of a scarlet rose

She flourished by scorched desert dunes;

She blossoms by billowing volcanoes.

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She is a scarlet rose in winter’s frost.

Her sweet petal lips speaks with gentle words;

Her smile leaves my heart shattered and tossed;

Her laughter is like songs of chirping birds.

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From across the room, how heaven did show

Radiance personified, heaven’s glow.

So, I beheld your beauty from afar

as if gazing on a bright, blazing star.

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So, when I see you from across the room,

your bright, perfect smile touches my soul.

So, when I see you from across the room,

your lush, perfect blossom makes my heart whole.