But low by the wall is my odorless flower,

So pure, so controlled, not a fume is above her,

That poet or bee should delay there and hover;

For she is a silence, and therefore I love her.

And never a mortal by morn or midnight

Is called to her hid little house of delight;

And she keeps from the wind, on his pillages olden,

Upon a true stalk in rough weather upholden,

Her winter-white gourd with the hollow moon-golden.

While ardors of roses contend and increase,