Rose Tree

Famous quotes containing the words rose tree, rose and/or tree:

    ‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    ...the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:6.

    The body in the grave is like the tree in winter; they conceal their greenness under a show of dryness.... We too must wait for the springtime of the body.
    Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cent. A.D.)