Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
I. AdmirationThe White Rose
AnonymousSent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress
I
Placed in thy bosom bare,
’T will blush to find itself less white,
And turn Lancastrian there.
As kiss it thou mayest deign,
With envy pale ’t will lose its dye,
And Yorkish turn again.