In Bonny Barbara Allan, a man is sick with love and is dying of a broken heart, and the women for whom his affection is for won't forgive him for getting drunk and hurting her. The man commits suicide, and Barbara Allan says that "since [her] love died for [her] today, [she shall] die for him tomorrow" and she, too, commits suicide. From his grave grew a rose, and from her's grew a thorn, and the two intertwined "until they tied a true love's knot - the red rose and the brier". This poem made me think of Romeo and Juliet in the fact that the two lovers commit suicide so they don't have to live apart from the other.
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