“Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?”
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The new pastoral Book.
“Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?”
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
Canto IV, stanza 1. <br class="br"> The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
François de Malherbe (1555–1628) (1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator
Mais elle était du monde, où les plus belles choses
Ont le pire destin;
Et Rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses,
L'espace d'un matin.
Letter of condolence to M. Du Perrier on the loss of his daughter, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 680
“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
“Her heart was warmed and melted like the dew on roses under the morning sun.”
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1019–1021
“Like pearl
Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn
Upon the bashful rose.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
A Game of Chess (1624).