Poem - "The Rose Family" by Robert Frost

"The Rose Family" 
by Robert Frost


The rose is a rose,


And was always a rose.

But the theory now goes

That the apple's a rose,

And the pear is, and so's

The plum, I suppose.

The dear only know

What will next prove a rose.

You, of course, are a rose--

But were always a rose.