“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Source: A Red, Red Rose
A Red, Red Rose, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Source: A Red, Red Rose
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
“Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1736/ <br class="br">The Rose (1893) <br class="br">Context: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!<br>Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:<br>Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;<br>The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,<br>Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold;
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
The Rose (1893)
Context: Come near, come near, come near — Ah, leave me still
A little space for the rose-breath to fill!
Lest I no more hear common things that crave;
The weak worm hiding down in its small cave,
The field-mouse running by me in the grass,
And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass;
But seek alone to hear the strange things said
By God to the bright hearts of those long dead,
And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know.
Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
“Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
“(On William Shatner) He is like my favourite red-faced, bloated booze bag.”
Kathy Griffin (1960) American actress and comedian
Straight To Hell (2007)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)