A Dozen Roses From the Garden of Love The Secret Scarlet Rose

Reign endless, rose!
for fair you are,
Nor heaven reserves
a fairer thing.
Herman Melville

She wore a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
She Wore a Wreath of Roses

And she was fair as is
the rose in May.
Legend of Cleopatra

I'd rather have roses on my table than
diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

He who would have beautiful roses in his
garden must have beautiful Roses in his heart.
Dean Hole

Here's to friendship, the only rose without thorns!
Toast

Like the rose, Mighty like the rose, A rose
is a rose is an onion.
Ernest Hemingway

Any Nose
May ravage with impunity
a rose.
Robert Browning
Sordello

And I wove the thing to a random rhyme,
For the Rose is Beauty, the Gardener, Time.
Austin Dobson
A Fancy from Fontenelle

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather.
Algernon C. Swinburne
A Match

I seek a form that my style cannot
discover, a bud of thought that wants
to be a rose.
Ruben Dario
I Seed a Form

Sweet spring, full of sweet days
and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
The Temple

A rosebud set with a little willful thorns,
And sweet as English air could make
her, she.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Prince

Sweet as the rose that died last year
is the rose that is born today.
Cosmo Monkhouse
A Dead March

Each morn a thousand roses bring,
you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of
Yesterday?
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Two roses on one slender spray
In sweet communion grew,
Together hailed the morning ray
And drank the evening dew.
Montgomery
The Rose
A Dozen Roses


The Secret Garden Rose

Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction.
Saint Exupery