
Part I, section xxii, stanza 10
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
Part I, section xxii, stanza 10
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
Già l'aura messaggiera erasi desta
A nunziar che se ne vien l'aurora:
intanto s'adorna, e l'aurea testa
Di rose, colte in Paradiso, infiora.
Canto III, stanza 1 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)
“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;
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.
“She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”
"The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
“Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships”
Source: Ruskin Bond's Book Of Nature
“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June.”
Source: A Red, Red Rose