"Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
All men make faults." ~William Shakespeare
Rose from my Garden
Growing and blooming below
my bedroom window
November 13, 2022
Leah C Dancel Photography
"Some arose
while some froze
and had to pause
to see her strike a pose
as part of this meaningful post
of this short prose
about the lovely rose
named Rose!!!"
~Jadj Dancel ~
"A bed of roses is a good description of human life. And roses are not all soft petals. They have thorns too. No human life is petal soft. Every life has thorns of grief, pain, heartache, and disappointment because we live in a fallen world." ~Rosalind Embry (The Upper Room 1998)
"A garden with roses is no doubt called a Garden of Love. Their flowers are free to be shared." ~Leah Dancel, 28 August 2012
"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring." ~William Carlos Williams
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" ~Proverb
"A Rose is a symbol for love. Like love, a Rose is fitted with thorns that represent trials. The flower itself by its grand beauty symbolises triumph. Have you ever heard of a saying, "There's no glory without sacrifice?" So is love." ~Leah C. Dancel, October 12, 2022
"A single rose can be my garden, a single friend, my world." ~Leo Buscaglia
"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom." ~Chinese Proverbs
“All the spring may be hidden in the single bud,
and the low ground nest of the lark may hold
the joy that is to herald the feet
of many rose-red dawns.”
~Oscar Wilde
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." ~Henry L. Mencken
"Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary." ~MJ Korvan
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." ~Ben Hogan
"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."
~William Shakespeare
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." ~Anne Bronte
"A single rose can be my garden, a single friend, my world." ~Leo Buscaglia
"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom." ~Chinese Proverbs
“All the spring may be hidden in the single bud,
and the low ground nest of the lark may hold
the joy that is to herald the feet
of many rose-red dawns.”
~Oscar Wilde
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." ~Henry L. Mencken
"Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary." ~MJ Korvan
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round." ~Ben Hogan
November 13, 2022
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."
~William Shakespeare
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." ~Anne Bronte
"Every sweet-scented rose tells from its heart the secrets of heaven and earth." ~Rumi
“Forgiving, listening, understanding are beautiful roses.” ~Gede Prama
"Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1998/mpw
"From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn." ~Greek Proverb
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet it time." ~Edmund Spenser
"He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair." ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." ~Persian Proverb
"Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1998/mpw
"From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn." ~Greek Proverb
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet it time." ~Edmund Spenser
"He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair." ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." ~Persian Proverb
"Heart is not a basket for keeping tension and sadness. It is a golden box for keeping roses of happiness and sweet memories." ~Buddha's Teaching
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses, or growing roses makes people nice." ~Roland A. Browne
"I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away." ~Albion Fellows Bacon
"If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d walk through a garden forever." ~Anon
"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?" ~G.K. Chesterton
"If you look at a rose bush, those with the most thorns turn out to be the strongest, the most resilient of the bushes and with the most stunning flowers and sweetest fragrance." ~Karenhcm Colorado
"If you search for rose, Love. If you want to bloom like rose, Love." ~Gede Prama
"It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose."
~Robert Browning
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” ~George Eliot
"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." ~Mark Overby.
"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." ~Katharine Lee Bates
"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem." ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose." ~Turkish Proverb
"Nothing like walking thru a rose garden on a warm day .. hearing the bees humming and inhaling the perfume." ~Rosemary Jean (from FB October 2013)
"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses." ~Ovid
"One rose says more than the dozen." ~Wendy Craig
"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full." ~Rumi
"Roses bloom in the vicinity.. where a plant-loving neighbour tends." ~Leah C. Dancel, 11 October 2017
"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses." ~George Herbert (1984)
"Take time to smell the roses." ~Ferdinand the Bull (Gardening Cliches)
"Take time to smell the roses and eventually you’ll inhale a bee." ~Anon
"That which God said to the rose and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty; he said to my heart and made it a hundred times more beautiful." ~Rumi
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." ~George William Curtis
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." ~Khalil Gibran
"The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it." ~Chinese Proverb
"The rose imparts its fragrance, not in many ways but only one. Those who have not the sense of smell will miss it. " ~Mahatma Gandhi
“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"The splendour of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness." ~Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
"The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose." ~Samuel Ha-Nagid (c. 900)
"The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends." ~Persian Proverb
"Truths and roses have thorns about them." ~Henry David Thoreau
"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” ~Dale Carnegie
"We can complain because rose 🌹 bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses " ~Abraham Lincoln
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest." ~Rumi
"What was whispered to the rose to break it open last night was whispered to my heart." ~Rumi
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." ~Ziggy
"You're a rose that grows in my heart to love." ~MPW
VERSES
"And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare."
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!"
~Thomas F. Healey
"In the centre of the rose,
A diamond burns
forever larger than all the worlds
more brilliant than any sun.
In the divine heart of the beloved
infinite passion arises
in infinite peace "
~Rumi
"In the window full of sunlight
Concentrates her golden shadow
Fold on fold, until it glows as
Mellow as the glory roses."
~D.H. Lawrence
"It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses."
~Nataniel Parker Willis
"It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose."
~Robert Browning
PINK ROSES
Pulchritude of innocence
The allure of my morning best
Its only sense of duty I've known
Is to seduce butterflies and bees.
Leah C. Dancel
@Poetry and Verse
October 29, 2019
"Rose!
Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower:
Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh."
~Thomas Moore
"We rose like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number!
We shook our chains to earth like dew,
From our sleep, to wake is due:
We still are many – they are few!"
~Percy Shelley
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest." ~Rumi
"What was whispered to the rose to break it open last night was whispered to my heart." ~Rumi
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." ~Ziggy
"You're a rose that grows in my heart to love." ~MPW
"And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare."
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!"
~Thomas F. Healey
"I never wanted someone to buy me roses;
I want someone who'd plant them,
knowing that I'd be around
when the flowers blossoms."
~fb/joy of dad
A diamond burns
forever larger than all the worlds
more brilliant than any sun.
In the divine heart of the beloved
infinite passion arises
in infinite peace "
~Rumi
"In the window full of sunlight
Concentrates her golden shadow
Fold on fold, until it glows as
Mellow as the glory roses."
~D.H. Lawrence
"It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses."
~Nataniel Parker Willis
"It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose."
~Robert Browning
PINK ROSES
Pulchritude of innocence
The allure of my morning best
Its only sense of duty I've known
Is to seduce butterflies and bees.
Leah C. Dancel
@Poetry and Verse
October 29, 2019
"Rose!
Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower:
Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh."
~Thomas Moore
"We rose like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number!
We shook our chains to earth like dew,
From our sleep, to wake is due:
We still are many – they are few!"
~Percy Shelley
"What's a thousand roses upon my grave?
I claimed for one before but you never gave.."
©Maria Evelyn Quilla Soleta
RELATED QUOTES
"Love is something you can't describe like the look of a rose, the smell of the rain, or the feeling of forever."~Kristen Kappel
"Love means the warmth of the sun, the aroma of a rose, the breeze of the sea, but as you can see it never means the same for anyone. Love acquires its true meaning by experiencing it for the first time because only then can you define it." ~Nestor Gallardo
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” ~Dale Carnegie
"Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see a wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude. And gratitude a key component to joy." ~Amy Weatherly
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