The Rubaiyat (1120)
Albion’s England (published 1612), Book viii. chap. xli. stanza 53.
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
Garden Rose
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Context: I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.”
Variant: Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
“The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end”
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Context: Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
“Like pearl
Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn
Upon the bashful rose.”
A Game of Chess (1624).
“The rosy-fingered morn with gladsome ray
Rose to her task from old Tithonus' lap.”
Book XV, stanza 1
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Interview with Rock Guitar Player Magazine, 2003.
