Poet and other poems / Raymond Garfield Dandridge [electronic text]

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Poet and other poems / Raymond Garfield Dandridge [electronic text]
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Dandridge, Raymond Garfield
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Cincinnati, Ohio: Powell & White
1920
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"Poet and other poems / Raymond Garfield Dandridge [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9015.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2025.

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RED ROSE

I plucked a rose, a red rose rare, I placed her on a throne Within my heart; and there I dare To worship her alone.
An idol, thus, I paid to her My constant vigil, love, and care. Upon my knees, I prayed to her, My whole heart in my prayer.
Alas! my love, my care, my prayer, Failed! failed to keep my treasure fair. I saw (my heart filled with despair) Her drooping head;
Her beauty, grace and fragrance flown, Her every leaf and petal shorn, I gazed in silence—and alone— Upon my dead.

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