Yellow Roses

Famous quotes containing the words yellow and/or roses:

    ““I heard an old religious man
    But yesternight declare
    That he had found a text to prove
    That only God, my dear,
    Could love you for yourself alone
    And not your yellow hair.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To Him, the painted swallow,
    to Him, the lump of amber,
    to Him, the boy and girl
    with roses and love-knots,
    to Him, the little cat
    to play beneath the Manger....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)