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Webberlily · 06-11-2012, 10:33 PM

June 12 is Red Rose Day, and I thought you’d enjoy a few poems about roses:

Roses are Red, Violets are blue... just kidding.

Read on:

“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the rose,
That love’s sweet manuscript should close”

“I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its lap from some once lovely head” (Rubayats ofOmar Khayyam)

“A rose is a rose is a rose” (Gertrude Stein)

“Oh! I once heard a poem that goes:
A rose is a rose is a rose'
Well I don't agree,
Take it from me,
There's one rose sweeter than any that grows!”(Bye Bye Birdie)

"A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet -
One perfect rose." (Dorothy Parker)

"O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune." (Robert Burns)

“But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.” (Anne Bronte)

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.” (Shakespeare)

Let’s end with a light note from a limerick:

“There was a young lady named Rose
Who had a large wart on her nose.
When she had it removed,
Her appearance improved.
But her glasses slipped down to her toes!"