Purple Rose

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or rose:

    O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
    The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.
    Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    I did not pray Him to lay bare
    The mystery to me,
    Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
    And His own face to see.
    Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871–1962)