Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
Go tell her all I fain would dare,
Tell her of hope; tell her of spring,
Tell her of all I fain would sing,
Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing.
Michael Beverly
Quotes , Source: Go Pretty Rose
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Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Wisdom of Solomon (ch. II, v. 8)
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He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Bidpai (Pilpay)
Quotes , Source: The Ignorant Physician (fable viii)
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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the
thorns.
Bidpai (Pilpay)
Quotes , Source: The Two Travellers (chap. ii, fable vi)
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Thus to the Rose, the Thistle:
Why art thou not of thistle-breed?
Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,
For asses might upon thee feed.
Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt
Quotes , Source: The Rose and Thistle, (translated from the German by Frederick Ricord)
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The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets
Most perfect dies.
Maria Brooks
Quotes , Source: Written on Seeing Pharamond
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'Twas a yellow rose,
By that south window of the little house,
My cousin Romney gathered with his hand
On all my birthdays, for me. save the last;
And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,
For roses to stay after.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VI)
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O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,--
Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: A Dead Rose
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And thus, what can we do,
Poor rose and poet too,
Who both antedate our mission
In an unprepared season?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: A Lay of the Early Rose
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"For if I wait," said she,
"Till time for roses be,--
For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,
Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,--
"What glory then for me
In such a company?--
Roses plenty, roses plenty
And one nightingale for twenty?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: A Lay of the Early Rose
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves,
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: One Way of Love
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Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
William Cullen Bryant
Quotes , Source: A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson
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I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view,
For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'!
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: The Posie
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Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew,
How pure amang the leaves sae green!
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: To Chloris
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When love came first to earth, the Spring
Spread rose-beds to receive him.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: Song--When Love Came First to Earth
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Rose were sette of swete savour,
With many roses that thei bere.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Romaunt of the Rose
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
[Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Romaunt of the Rose
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I wish I might a rose-bud grow
And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.
To place me on that breast of snow
Where I should bloom a wintry flower.
Rose Terry Cooke
Quotes , Source: Reve Du Midi
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