Quotes
About Roses
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Their lips
were four red roses on a stalk.
- William Shakespeare
Roses
red and violets blew, And all the sweetest
flowers that in the forest grew.
- Edmund Spenser
Oh,
my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That ’s newly sprung in June;
Oh, my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
- Robert Burns
The
red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
- John Boyle O’Reilly
And I will
make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
- Christopher Marlowe
God
gave us our memories so that we might have roses in
December.
- J. M. Barrie
I cast
my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.
- William Butler Yeats
Gather the
rose of love whilst yet is time.
- Edmund Spenser
The
rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott
Gather
ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still aflying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
- Robert Herrick
A
red, red rose, all wet with dew,
With leaves of green by red shot through.
- E. Nesbit
The
rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
- Bryant
Here bloom
red roses, dewy wet,
And beds of fragrant mignonette.
- Elaine Goodale
She wore
a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.
- Thos. Haynes Bayly