{"product_id":"2940016169903","title":"The Rainbow and the Rose","description":"\"The Rainbow and the Rose\" is neither decadent nor revolutionary, but fresh and individual in a simple way that makes agreeable reading of her more or less subjective verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003eTHE THINGS THAT MATTER.\u003cbr\u003eTHE CONFESSION.\u003cbr\u003eWORK.\u003cbr\u003eTHE JILTED LOVER TO HIS MOTHER.\u003cbr\u003eTHE WILL TO LIVE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEATIFIC VISION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.\u003cbr\u003eMUMMY WHEAT.\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEECH TREE.\u003cbr\u003eIN ABSENCE.\u003cbr\u003eSILENCE.\u003cbr\u003eRAISON D'ÊTRE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE ONLOOKER.\u003cbr\u003eTHE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.\u003cbr\u003eAT PARTING.\u003cbr\u003eSONG.\u003cbr\u003eRENUNCIATION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.\u003cbr\u003eTHE VEIL OF MAYA.\u003cbr\u003eSONG.\u003cbr\u003eTO VERA, WHO ASKED A SONG.\u003cbr\u003eTHE POET TO HIS LOVE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAIDEN'S PRAYER.\u003cbr\u003eSONG.\u003cbr\u003eTHE MAGIC FLOWER.\u003cbr\u003eLA DERNIÈRE ROBE DE SOI.\u003cbr\u003eTHE LEAST POSSIBLE.\u003cbr\u003eEN TOUT CAS.\u003cbr\u003eAPPEAL.\u003cbr\u003eST. VALENTINE'S DAY.\u003cbr\u003eCHAGRIN D'AMOUR.\u003cbr\u003eBRIDAL EVE.\u003cbr\u003eLOVE AND LIFE.\u003cbr\u003eFROM THE ITALIAN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.\u003cbr\u003e\"OUT OF THE FULNESS OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKETH.\"\u003cbr\u003eSUMMER SONG.\u003cbr\u003eTHE LOWER ROOM.\u003cbr\u003eSONG.\u003cbr\u003eMAY SONG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.\u003cbr\u003eTO IRIS.\u003cbr\u003eTO A CHILD.\u003cbr\u003eBIRTHDAY TALK FOR A CHILD.\u003cbr\u003eTO ROSAMUND.\u003cbr\u003eFROM THE TUSCAN.\u003cbr\u003eMOTHER SONG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.\u003cbr\u003eTHE ISLAND.\u003cbr\u003ePOSSESSION.\u003cbr\u003eACCESSION.\u003cbr\u003eTHE DESTROYER.\u003cbr\u003eTHE EGOISTS.\u003cbr\u003eTHE WAY OF LOVE.\u003cbr\u003eTO ONE WHO PLEADED FOR CANDOUR IN LOVE.\u003cbr\u003eTHE ENCHANTED GARDEN.\u003cbr\u003eTHE POOR MAN'S GUEST.\u003cbr\u003eIN THE SHALLOWS.\u003cbr\u003e\"AND THE RAINS DESCENDED AND THE FLOODS CAME.\"\u003cbr\u003eTHE STAR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII.\u003cbr\u003eTHE PRODIGAL SON.\u003cbr\u003eDESPAIR.\u003cbr\u003eTHE TEMPTATION.\u003cbr\u003eSECOND NATURE.\u003cbr\u003eDE PROFUNDIS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. \u003cbr\u003eAT THE GATE.\u003cbr\u003eVIA AMORIS.\u003cbr\u003eRETRO SATHANAS.\u003cbr\u003eTHE OLD DISPENSATION.\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW DISPENSATION.\u003cbr\u003eTHE THREE KINGS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX.\u003cbr\u003eAFTER DEATH.\u003cbr\u003eCHLOE.\u003cbr\u003eINVOCATION.\u003cbr\u003eTHE LAST BETRAYAL.\u003cbr\u003eA PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY.\u003cbr\u003eTRUE LOVE AND NEW LOVE.\u003cbr\u003eDEATH.\u003cbr\u003eIN MEMORY OF\u003cbr\u003eA PARTING. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE THINGS THAT MATTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOW that I've nearly done my days, \u003cbr\u003e    And grown too stiff to sweep or sew, \u003cbr\u003eI sit and think, till I'm amaze, \u003cbr\u003e    About what lots of things I know: \u003cbr\u003eThings as I've found out one by one— \u003cbr\u003e    And when I'm fast down in the clay, \u003cbr\u003eMy knowing things and how they're done \u003cbr\u003e    Will all be lost and thrown away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's things, I know, as won't be lost, \u003cbr\u003e    Things as folks write and talk about: \u003cbr\u003eThe way to keep your roots from frost, \u003cbr\u003e    And how to get your ink spots out. \u003cbr\u003eWhat medicine's good for sores and sprains, \u003cbr\u003e    What way to salt your butter down, \u003cbr\u003eWhat charms will cure your different pains, \u003cbr\u003e    And what will bright your faded gown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut more important things than these, \u003cbr\u003e    They can't be written in a book: \u003cbr\u003eHow fast to boil your greens and peas, \u003cbr\u003e    And how good bacon ought to look; \u003cbr\u003eThe feel of real good wearing stuff, \u003cbr\u003e    The kind of apple as will keep, \u003cbr\u003eThe look of bread that's rose enough, \u003cbr\u003e    And how to get a child asleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether the jam is fit to pot, \u003cbr\u003e    Whether the milk is going to turn, \u003cbr\u003eWhether a hen will lay or not, \u003cbr\u003e    Is things as some folks never learn. \u003cbr\u003eI know the weather by the sky, \u003cbr\u003e    I know what herbs grow in what lane; \u003cbr\u003eAnd if sick men are going to die, \u003cbr\u003e    Or if they'll get about again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung wives come in, a-smiling, grave, \u003cbr\u003e    With secrets that they itch to tell: \u003cbr\u003eI know what sort of times they'll have, \u003cbr\u003e    And if they'll have a boy or gell. \u003cbr\u003eAnd if a lad is ill to bind, \u003cbr\u003e    Or some young maid is hard to lead, \u003cbr\u003eI know when you should speak 'em kind, \u003cbr\u003e    And when it's scolding as they need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI used to know where birds ud set, \u003cbr\u003e    And likely spots for trout or hare, \u003cbr\u003eAnd God may want me to forget \u003cbr\u003e    The way to set a line or snare; \u003cbr\u003eBut not the way to truss a chick, \u003cbr\u003e    To fry a fish, or baste a roast, \u003cbr\u003eNor how to tell, when folks are sick, \u003cbr\u003e    What kind of herb will ease them most!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForgetting seems such silly waste! 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