Search
Search results
Displaying 61 - 70
Christina Rossetti: Under the Rose
Under the Rose'The iniquity of the fathers upon the children.'Oh the rose of keenest thorn! One hidden summer morn Under the rose I was born.I do not guess his name Who wrought my Mother's…Caroline Giltinan: Overnight, a Rose
Overnight, a RoseCaroline GiltinanThat overnight a rose could come I one time did believe, For when the fairies live with one, They wilfully deceive. But now I know this perfect thing…Benét, William Rose (Benét)
Benét, William Rose (Benét)[1886-1950](2)Born at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Harbor, Feb. 2, 1886. Graduated at the Academy of Albany, N.Y., in 1904, and took the degree of Ph.B. from the Sheffield…Sara Teasedale: Dooryard Roses
Dooryard RosesI have come the selfsame path To the selfsame door, Years have left the roses there Burning as before.While I watch them in the wind Quick the hot tears start— Strange…A Boy's Will: Rose Pogonias
by Robert Frost Flower-gatheringAsking for RosesRose Pogonias He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature; A SATURATED meadow, Sun-shaped and jewel-small, A circle scarcely wider…A Boy's Will: Asking for Roses
by Robert Frost Rose PogoniasWaitingAsking for Roses nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe. A HOUSE that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but…Aesop's Fables: The Rose and the Amaranth
by Aesop The Nightingale and the HawkThe Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the DogThe Rose and the Amaranth A Rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the Amaranth said to…Brewer's: Couleur de Rose
(French). Highly coloured; too favourably considered; overdrawn with romantic embellishments, like objects viewed through glass tinted with rose pink. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Red Rose Knight
(The) Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1597, published a “history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed the Boast of England. ...” Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Sing Old Rose
Sing Old Rose and burn the bellows. “Old Rose” was the title of a song now unknown; thus, Izaak Walton (1590-1683) says, “Let's sing Old Rose.” Burn the bellows is said to be a schoolboy's…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
