With fragrance I entreat

If I were to choose a  flower for my love

A rose of perfect form would be my choice

A rain of roses from the sky above

Would certainly  express what I  can’t voice.

 

I  could well choose a daisy with no thorns

I  could choose lush lipped tulip for design

But never would I send a flower forlorn

Should you reject this loving  heart of mine.

 

But,no,I choose these roses for your bliss

For Blake wrote of a tyger not a cat;

Yet if I am made bloody by a kiss,

I ‘ll  wrestle with the daemon  you’ve begat .

 

The rose with other name would still be sweet.

May my passage to your heart be sure and fleet.