ROSE-SHEATHED beside the rosebud tongue
Lurks the young adder's tooth;
Milk-mild from new-born hemlock-bluth
The earliest drops are wrung:
And sweet the flower of his first youth
When Michael Scott was young.
More verses by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Motto To The Card Dealer
- Sonnet Lxxxii: Hoarded Joy
- Sonnet V: Heart's Hope
- Sonnet Xci: Lost On Both Sides
- Sonnet Xvii: Beauty's Pageant