To ___, With a Rose

by Sydney Lanier

I asked my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay

Upon my Lady's natal day.

Then said my heart to me:

Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee

What fits thy Love most lovingly.

This gift that learning shows;

For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,

I send a rose unto a Rose.