“I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,
Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”
I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“She wore a wreath of roses
The first night that we met.”
She wore a Wreath, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.”
The Rose that all are praising, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).