Nobody Knows This Little Rose
poem 35
Nobody Knows This Little Rose - meaning Summary
Private Fragility Offered
The speaker describes finding a small, unnoticed rose and lifting it out of the road as an intimate, protective act. Only humble creatures—a bee, a butterfly, a bird, a breeze—would miss or mourn it, emphasizing how few perceive such fragile life. The poem frames the rose’s beauty and vulnerability as both easily overlooked and easily extinguished, turning a small rescue into a quiet meditation on care and mortality.
Read Complete AnalysesNobody knows this little Rose It might a pilgrim be Did I not take it from the ways And lift it up to thee. Only a Bee will miss it Only a Butterfly, Hastening from far journey On its breast to lie Only a Bird will wonder Only a Breeze will sigh Ah Little Rose how easy For such as thee to die!
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