Elizabeth Barrett Browning — Question and Answer

I. Love you seek for, presupposes        &nbspSummer heat and sunny glow. Tell me, do you find moss-roses        &nbspBudding, blooming in the snow? Snow might kill the rose-tree’s root— Shake it quickly from your foot,        &nbspLest it harm you as you go. II. From the ivy where it dapples        &nbspA grey ruin, stone by stone, Do you look for grapes or apples,        &nbspOr for sad green leaves alone? Pluck the leaves off, two or three— Keep them for morality        &nbspWhen you shall be safe and gone.