Rose on old paper

Angela Maria Russo - Rose - watercolour on old paper

Nobody knows this little Rose

Nobody 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 it's breast to lie -

Only a Bird will wonder -

Only a Breeze will sigh -

Ah Little Rose - how easy

For such as thee to die.

  (Emily Dickinson - 1858, Poems)