Careful Words

rose (n.)

rose (v.)

rose (adj.)

Any nose

May ravage with impunity a rose.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Sordello. Book vi.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;

But like of each thing that in season grows.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes

May weep, but never see,

A night of memories and of sighs

I consecrate to thee.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864): Rose Aylmer.

  The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Old Testament: Isaiah xxxv. 1.

The budding rose above the rose full blown.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Prelude. Book xi.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

I have heard the mavis singing

Its love-song to the morn;

I 've seen the dew-drop clinging

To the rose just newly born.

Charles Jefferys (1807-1865): Mary of Argyle.

She what was honour knew,

And with obsequious majesty approv'd

My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower

I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven

And happy constellations on that hour

Shed their selectest influence; the earth

Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;

Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs

Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings

Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508.

Go, lovely rose!

Tell her that wastes her time and me

That now she knows,

When I resemble her to thee,

How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Edmund Waller (1605-1687): Go, Lovely Rose.

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd

At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.

He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,

His mother's doves, and team of sparrows:

Loses them too. Then down he throws

The coral of his lip, the rose

Growing on's cheek (but none knows how);

With these, the crystal of his brow,

And then the dimple on his chin:

All these did my Campaspe win.

At last he set her both his eyes:

She won, and Cupid blind did rise.

O Love! has she done this to thee?

What shall, alas! become of me?

John Lyly (Circa 1553-1601): Cupid and Campaspe. Act iii. Sc. 5.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd

Than that which withering on the virgin thorn

Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

  I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

H B Constant (1767-1830):

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 200.

  All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. iv. 44.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,

And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,

And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

This saying, "Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vécu avec elle," is assigned to Constant by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the "Autobiography and Letters" of Mrs. Piozzi.

I have heard the mavis singing

Its love-song to the morn;

I 've seen the dew-drop clinging

To the rose just newly born.

Charles Jefferys (1807-1865): Mary of Argyle.

'T is the last rose of summer,

Left blooming alone.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): The Last Rose of Summer.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,

Flushing his brow.

John Keats (1795-1821): The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 16.

  And the final event to himself [Mr. Burke] has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Letter to the Addressers.

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge

Rose, like an exhalation.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 710.

The rainbow comes and goes,

And lovely is the rose.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2.

My life is like the summer rose

That opens to the morning sky,

But ere the shades of evening close

Is scattered on the ground—to die.

Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847): My Life is like the Summer Rose.

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June;

Oh, my luve's like the melodie

That's sweetly played in tune.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): A Red, Red Rose.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying,

And this same flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): To the Virgins to make much of Time.

The expectancy and rose of the fair state,

The glass of fashion and the mould of form,

The observed of all observers!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

He wears the rose

Of youth upon him.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Sc. 13.

Red as a rose is she.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Ancient Mariner. Part i.

As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.

John Keats (1795-1821): The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 27.

I sometimes think that never blows so red

The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;

That every Hyacinth the Garden wears

Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131): Rubáiyát. Stanza xix.

  A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

John Lyly (Circa 1553-1601): Euphues and his England, page 314.

The rose that all are praising

Is not the rose for me.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839): The Rose that all are praising.

Loveliest of lovely things are they

On earth that soonest pass away.

The rose that lives its little hour

Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,

Flushing his brow.

John Keats (1795-1821): The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 16.

  When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682): Vulgar Errors.

Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2.

A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 43.

  There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay: The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): The Rose.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256.

And her face so fair

Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 29.

And her face so fair

Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 29.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2.