“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).
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English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839Related quotes
“Doth logic in the lily hide,
And where's the reason in the rose?”
The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Rome", XLI, line 11; p. 116.
(7th June 1834) The History of the Lily
(25th October 1834) The Exile. See under Translations from the French
(1835) For Versions from the German, see under Translations from the German
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835
“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”
Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. VIII of X
“ROSES ARE RED. VIOLETS ARE BLUE, I'M A SCHIZOPHRENIC AND so AM I”
He Made the saying popular on a T-Shirt he wore.
"Now Some Comic Relief" (1989)
“Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.”
Canto 6, stanza 6
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III
“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”
Letter 310 to Mistress Taylor's on her son's death
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)