Popular Poems on Roses for Kids

Have you ever seen a bunch of beautiful roses in a garden? Do you remember their fragrance? No wonder the rose is the favourite flower of most people, in spite of having thorns! The flower’s beauty has enchanted many great poets across the world, who have written some classic poems on roses.

Here are a few rose poems by some popular poets that kids will enjoy reading. So, let us begin the fun time!

Poems on roses for kids.

1. 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 its breast to lie –

Only a Bird will wonder –

Only a Breeze will sigh –

Ah Little Rose – how easy

For such as thee to die!

Summary: Written by the famous Emily Dickinson, this poem on rose is grieving over the fact that her muse, the "little Rose," has no acquaintance and it will die in solitude. She laments that except for a bee, a butterfly, a bird, and a breeze, there are a few who knew that a simple, little rose existed on this Earth. Dickinson then notes that since the rose hasn’t garnered much attention during its lifetime, it is easy for this little flower to die. But even then, the creatures acquainted with it will miss and mourn the death of the little rose. 

2. A Red, Red Rose

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve’s like the melodie

That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I:

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:

I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Luve

And fare thee well, a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

Summary: “A Red, Red Rose” is written by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, in 1794 as a collection of traditional Scottish songs. In this poem, the poet or speaker addresses his beloved as a ‘red rose’ and emphasises her youth and beauty, and his passionate, eternal love for her. Just like the roses are the most beautiful when “newly sprung” but do not remain the same forever, the speaker suggests that his beloved’s beauty is also likely to fade with time.

However, as the poem continues, the speaker says that his love is permanent, and it will remain constant no matter what happens until death does them apart. In the end, the speaker bids goodbye to his beloved and wishes her well during their temporary separation, promising to return even if the journey “were ten thousand miles” long.

3. The Last Rose of Summer

‘Tis the last rose of Summer,

   Left blooming alone;

All her lovely companions

   Are faded and gone;

No flower of her kindred,

   No rose-bud is nigh,

To reflect back her blushes

  Or give sigh for sigh!

I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one,

   To pine on the stem;

Since the lovely are sleeping,

   Go sleep thou with them.

Thus kindly I scatter

   Thy leaves o’er the bed

Where thy mates of the garden

   Lie scentless and dead.

So soon may I follow,

   When friendships decay,

And from Love’s shining circle

   The gems drop away!

When true hearts lie withered,

   And fond ones are flown,

Oh! who would inhabit

   This bleak world alone?

Summary: Written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore in 1805, “The Last Rose of Summer” is a beautiful song set to an old Irish tune. In the poem, a rose is used as a metaphor for the sadness and loneliness that one feels towards the end of their life when all of their friends have died. The speaker reflects on how the “last rose of Summer” is the only one still blooming while others have faded and died. The rose has no one left to admire its beauty.

As the poem progresses, the speaker says that when everyone near him is gone, he or the “last rose” would join his companions who had fallen to the ground. The poet believes there is no point living life without the warmth of friendship when he says: “who would inhabit this bleak world alone!”

4. The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,

The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,

The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,

Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;

I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,

With the earth and the sky and the water, re-made, like a casket of gold

For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

Summary: Written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the poem and its title suggests that the poem on roses is about a person who the author really loves or yearns for. Yeats has mostly stayed abroad and is trying to remember his life in Ireland, his homeland, through this poem. Thus, contrary to popular beliefs, the poem may not be much about romantic love as it is about nationalistic ideals.

Conclusion

This “bouquet” of poems on rose is as beautiful and complex as the flower itself. So, try to understand these poems and preserve them in a vase of your mind. But don’t limit yourself to just these few poems; we have a huge collection of English poems on various topics to cater to your creative needs. So, head to our website and enjoy!