Roses

Famous quotes containing the word roses:

“What slender Youth bedew’d with liquid odours
Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave,”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

“Say that she rail, why then I’ll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she frown, I’ll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly washed with dew.
Say she be mute, and will not speak a word,
Then I’ll commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“You prefer a woman under the earth,
you heap roses above a grave;
a woman under the earth
is safe,
a woman dead
is beloved.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)