ladies’ names. 127 
Signification . . Rose of the World. 
Emblem Red Rose-bud. 
Sentiment .... Pure and Lovely. 
“ O’er the porch there grew an Eastern rose, 
That flowering high, the last night’s gale had caught, 
And blown across the walk. One arm aloft 
Gown’d in pure white, that fitted to the shape, — 
Holding the bush to fix it back she stood, 
A single stream of all her soft brown hair 
Pour’d on one side ; the shadow of the flowers 
Stole all the golden gloss, and, wavering 
Lovingly lower, trembled on her waist — 
Ah, happy shade — and still went wavering down, 
But, ere it touched a foot, that might have danced 
The greensward into greener circles, dipt, 
And mixed with shadows of the common ground ! 
But the full day dwelt on her brows, and sunn’d 
Her violet eyes, and all her Hebe-bloom, 
And doubled his own warmth against her lips, v 
And on the bounteous wave of such a breast 
As never pencil drew. Half light, half shade 
She stood, a sight to make an old man, young ! ” 
