Read the poem “sea rose,” by h. d. rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem? — you are caught in the drift. stunted, with small leaf, you are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind. can the spice-rose drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf? what is the central image of the poem? a stretch of barren beach a windy and dangerous storm a beautiful and bountiful rose a rose exposed to the elements