William Blake (1757-1827). My Pretty Rose-tree. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

My Pretty Rose-tree

By William Blake (1757–1827)


A FLOWER was offer’d to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, ‘I’ve a Pretty Rose-tree,’
And I passèd the sweet flower o’er.

Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree,	5
To tend her by day and by night,
But my Rose turn’d away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.