Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
I. Disappointment in LoveThe Shadow Rose
Robert Cameron Rogers (18621912)A
An ever-swaying shadow throws;
But if I pluck it strolling by,
I pluck the shadow with the rose.
To shadow it,—but was it fair
In him, who plucked and bore you off,
To leave your shadow lingering there?