Rose Quotes - Page 4
Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships
Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.38, Penguin Books India
It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.216, Pearson Education
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics
Edward Thomas, “If I Should Ever By Chance”
Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift.
Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.170, Associated University Presse
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
Kenneth Hare (1957). “Nymphs and Rivers: (a Selection from Poems Composed Between 1910 and 1957)”
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.64, Harvard University Press
Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House
'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'