Rose Buds Quotes

• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Flower, Night, Rose

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• The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

  Robert Herrick

  Heaven, Lamps, Sun

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• That age is best which is the first
  When youth and blood are warmer.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Blood, Age

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving Up, Flower, Rose

  'The Rose'

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• Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Rose, Free Spirit, Bud

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• Then be not coy, but use your time;
  And while ye may, go marry:
  For having lost but once your prime,
  You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Use, May, Prime

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Taken, Feet, Way

  Laurence Sterne (1800). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters to Eliza”, p.92

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• The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Garden, Bird, Wire

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

  Robert Burns

  Morning, Rose, Dew

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.216

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• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

  Dorothy Parker

  Flower, Years, Rose

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• I watched a rose-bud very long
  Brought on by dew and sun and shower,
  Waiting to see the perfect flower:
  Then when I thought it should be strong
  It opened at the matin hour
  And fell at even-song.

  Christina Rossetti

  Song, Strong, Flower

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.1677, Delphi Classics

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• While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

  James Montgomery

  Rose, Bud, Hue

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.358

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• Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

  Robert Herrick

  Fall, Men, Rose

  'The Rose'

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
  And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
  And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
  Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Moon, Fire

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.

  Home Run Baker

  Baseball, Garden, Rose

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• To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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