Gently gently my sweetest summer rose, <br />Give your fragrance and new tints of beauty; <br />So much pleasure - never in overdose, <br />Lovely symphony of shades - in tutti! <br />There's no one like you: sweet rose in the bloom, <br />Recondite and dark in the summer mood; <br />The green of the earth, is your guide and groom, <br />Continue to give joy, further elude. <br />Settle only for pleasures to adore, <br />Before the tones of your bloom withers on; <br />Even though in next year's time, there'll be more <br />Colours and shadings in the summer’s dawn. <br />What will be lost into the glimpsing past, <br />Should in memories forever though last.<br /><br />Peter S. Quinn<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-50-gently-gently-my-sweetest/
