The title poem is a long story in rhymed couplets, told by a young woman who sits sewing under the roses on a June morning and hears the step of the man she loves. A rivalry with a dear friend tests her heart, and the shorter poems that follow range over love, faith and duty, including All Roads That Lead to God Are Good.
Sentimental verse from one of the most widely read American poets of her day; its ideas of womanhood are those of 1882. Download the free EPUB.