“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)
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“Even children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 183.

“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.

“O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.”
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,<br/>et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.

“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

“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).

“Roses are red
And ready for plucking
You're sixteen
And ready for high school.”
Breakfast of Champions (1973)

“For roses also blossom on the thorn,
And the fair lily springs from loathsome weed.”
Che de le spine ancor nascon le rose,
E d'una fetida erba nasce il giglio.
Canto XXVII, stanza 121 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)