
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my pain.”
The Little White Rose
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my pain.”
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
I Second That Emotion, written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland (1967)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles
“Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:”
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1736/
The Rose (1893)
Context: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;
The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,
Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold;
As translated in Spanish-American Poetry : A Dual-language Anthology (1996) by Seymour Resnick
Variant translation:
I cultivate a white rose
In July as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his hand frankly. <p> And for the cruel person who tears out
the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns:
I cultivate a white rose.
Simple Verses (1891), I Grow a White Rose
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.