| The Sick Rose | |
| William Blake (from Songs of Experience, 1794) | |
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O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. 
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