this is my first visit to the site,..........and i have enjoyed it very much..... but i thought that this was an excerpt from one called........the princess.....if this is true, i was looking to find the whole poem, not just the excerpt..if anyone knows, let me know please.....thank you.
brenda

the poem itself says petal, a song after these words say rose ...
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Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

Lord Tennyson Alfred (1809-1892)