Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems

by George Parsons Lathrop

Produced by Michelle Shephard, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks

and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

ROSE AND ROOF-TREE:

POEMS

by

GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP

[Illustration: JESSAMINE]

Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,
Round after round and patiently
The poet ever upward climbs.

DEDICATION.

I need give my verse no hint as to whom it sings for. The rose, knowing her own right, makes servitors of the light-rays to carry her color. So every line here shall in some sense breathe of thee, and in its very face bear record of her whom, however unworthily, it seeks to serve and honor.