Lyric Poem · Nature
Love's Rose
1Hopes, that swell in youthful breasts,
2Live not through the waste of time!
3Love's rose a host of thorns invests;
4Cold, ungenial is the clime,
5Where its honours blow.
6Youth says, 'The purple flowers are mine,'
7Which die the while they glow.
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“Love's Rose” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/loves-rose
Quick facts
- Poem
- Love's Rose
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 21 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Love, Death & Loss
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 21 lines · 3 septets
- Line length
- Lines run 6-9 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
- Refrains
- “Where its honours blow.”“Which die the while they glow.”“Where its honours blow,”Repeated lines act as the poem's hinge or drumbeat.
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Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBLove's Rose by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 bd519b4081bf2414…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.