Croft, Thomas Elmsely, Sir, Bart., "The Rose." in The Bijou; (London: William Pickering , 1828)
   
      
         
            
               The Bijou; 
               or Annual of Literature and the Arts
            
            compiled by William Fraser
            
            
               
                  William Pickering
               
               London
            
            1828
            
               
                  p. 31
               
            
         
      
      
         
             31 
            
               The Rose
            
            
               By Sir
                  Thomas E. Croft, Bart.
            
            
               La rose que ta main chérie
                Hier a sauvé de la mort,
               Est aujourd'hui pâle et flétrie; — 
                Tel est des fleurs le triste sort.
               Reconnaissante de ta peine,
                En mourant cette aimable fleur,
                Légue a tes joues sa rougeur,
               Son doux parfum à ton haleine.
            
            
            
               The rose, alas! Thy guardian hand
                Sav'd yesterday from dying,
               Pale, wan, and wither'd from its stem,
                Is now in ruins lying:
               But the fond flower, to shew she still
                Was grateful, e'en in death,
               Her blushes to thy cheek bequeathed,
                Her perfume to thy breath.