Show me a rose more fair than what I have, <br />And I'll tell you, you searched throughout the lea <br />For beauties that to weary eyes would salve, <br />To find the one you flaunt as fairer be; <br />Or trod the dawn as buds begin to spread, <br />For starting then, flowers are best arrayed, <br />Or in the night, after the day has fled, <br />Espied how moonbeams on their petals played; <br />But should these traits on one fine rose you find, <br />Its thorns are not exactly stuffs for dreams, <br />Yet care that eyes to all the flaws be blind, <br />And only feel what loving heart esteems; <br />.....In time, petals will with the wind be flown, <br />.....But leaves a scent by which the rose is known.<br /><br />Reyvrex Questor Reyes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-sonnet-189-show-me-a-rose-more-fair-than-what-i-have/
