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Potential Titles: Rose
Wrap the last rose of faith - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
A red rose just before it's dipped in liquid nitrogen - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
When blood is black roses - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Anywhere I look is born a rose - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Crown him with gems and roses - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"
And wakened the sleeping rose - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
Receding on the path of dark spruce and roses - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
Lounging nude atop the roses on the mantle - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Clad in diamonds of rose and black - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
And the glade of roses scream war - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
Gold rose petals spilled by the moon - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
In a fragrant shrine of climbing roses - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Roses fall, but the thorns remain - Anonymous Dutch proverb (I can't find a firmer source for this)
To bear the red rose company - "Babylon"
Gone with the roses and dew - Libbie C. Baer "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
And the rose withers on its virgin thorns - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Bestows her summer ices and her winter rose - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The stricken lily puts the rose to shame - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Put to shame the white rose and the red - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"
Opening to foggy roses - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Will hide the thorns with roses - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garland"
Where rue displaced the rose - Cora C. Bass "Light"
Till Autumn fades the rose - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
My rose of heart's delight - Charlotte Becker "Song"
A rose if its petals thought of snows - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Gave her youth like a burning rose - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Left with a heartbreak of roses - Paul Bernstein "Prodigal"
The rose assumed a dye more deep - Robert Blair "The Grave"
A single rose upon a wand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
As though unseen roses grazed him - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Moles have gnawed the rose tree at its root - Arna Bontemps "Lancelot"
They have broken roses down - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Unto the wine-filled rose - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 26"
Should never crave the rose - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
Filtered through roses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Despite cold walls and roses - Sue Budin "Looking for My Brother's Grave"
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Passionate as the rose of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Dropped a rose of gold - William Canton "Song"
Your dreams of golden roses - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Behind the rose the planet - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
This is the joy of the rose - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"
That rose of awful mystery - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"
We can not mend torn roses - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Why the roses no longer grow at your feet - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
A crown of flinty spines about the rose - W.R. Childe "The Gothic Rose"
While the rose and the song are one - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Then lay your rose on the fire - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
Like the rose on its ladder of thorn - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
When the rose is queen - Arthur Colton "Martial to Pliny"
A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
A rose, a crimson rose! - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
Nearer to the cypress than the rose - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"
To-night the roses blow - Arthur Colton "To-Morrow"
That dallied with a crimson rose - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Whose heart is a rose - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"
The rose in its fragrance sleeps - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"
Sleeping boys and drowsy roses - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"
The rose already has many names - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
Blooming like a guarded rose - Susan Coolidge "By the Cradle"
To tell where a rose has been - Susan Coolidge "Embalmed"
The right of a rose to bloom - Susan Coolidge "My Rights"
More dazzling fair than summer roses are - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Bursts the rose of light - Susan Coolidge "On the Shore"
Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
So your roses turned to bread - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."
When my roses were at roses - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"
Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Who would answer for the color of a rose - Nathalia Crane "The Blind Girl"
Her rivals have flouted the rose - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"
Called the roll of the roses - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"
On the field where the roses fell - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"
The wind in gardens where pale roses die - Adelaide Crapsey "Oh, Lady, Let the Sad Tears Fall"
Roses have set the borders on fire - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
If (and when) roses complain - e.e. cummings ???
Roses (you feel certain) will only smile - e.e. cummings ???
Probably made of roses & hello - E.E. Cummings "Post Impressions (VI)"
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
by oaks and roses deliberated - E. E. Cummings "Songs (II)"
A rose shall beget the spring - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
Roses with amber petals - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Rift on rift of rose and scattered light - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
But leave the stark core of the rose - H.D. "Night"
A wet rose single on a stem - H.D. "Sea Rose"
Made of flint and roses - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"
In dells of rose and meadowsweet - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Outnumber a noon's roses - Walter de la Mare "Nod"
The sky a full-blown rose - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"
Eating roses sprinkled with lime - Diana Marie Delgado "They Chopped Down the Tree I Used to Lie Under and Count Stars With"
Cuts roses with a hatchet - Diana Marie Delgado "Twelve Trees"
The rose is out of town - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXVIII: Autumn"
The roses in life's diverse bouquet - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXII: Gone"
Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
For roses my full store - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"
Tired of thornless roses - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"
Hard by asphodel and rose - Theodor Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"
Burst rose of sharded light - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"
Too late for roses - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
Redeem the vanished rose of evening's dream - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
The fresh rose on yonder thorn - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
Shadows like black roses - B. H. Fairchild "The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955"
Loiters with the briar rose - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"
A rose torn in the careless frolic - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"
The lure of the roses is rare - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Where nevermore the rose of sunset pales - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
Rose fresher from the breeze - "Flora: a Vision"
Lavender instead of roses - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"
A mutant rose's neurotoxin - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"
White roses broke like foam - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
Grants us by silence the boon of her roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
Some wild, easily shattered rose - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"
To earthly rose and violet and blue - Zona Gale "Light"
Sure that a rose answered me - Zona Gale "Roses"
Always the reticence of roses - Zona Gale "Roses"
A rose would never admit me - Zona Gale "Roses"
Outlined like a rose - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
The virgin sisterhood of roses - Manmohan Ghose "Mentem Mortalia Tangunt"
In the garden of my shame growing roses - Andrea Gibson "Bad at Love"
Redder and redder burns the rose - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"
Roses white and lilies tender - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Merging with the shadows of the roses - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
Rose stark in ecstasy of fire - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"
Banners of white fire and rose - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"
The rose is fenced by the thorn - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
And make roses of the daisies - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"
The night-wind trembling round the rose - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"
Jagged as a red-rose thorn - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"
During the rose and lily's reign - Hafiz "The Divan XXIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Cold as the heart of a colorless rose - Katherine Hale "Christmas Eve"
Dancing in a rose of joy - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
A rose of fire and snow - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
A common miracle of salt roses - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
A steady tattoo of roses - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
In search of midnight roses - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
To gather a rose by the light of stars - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
On thorns (and roses) treading - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Careys"
Stand again in rose and purple - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Trimmin's on the Rosary"
Glowing rose and pensive pansy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"
Sweet as the dusty roses - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"
Its roses turned to holly - F.W. Harvey "The Philosopher Visits the Night Club"
Drew the balsam from the rose - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"
I will ask the rose - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
Exhaled from rose and citron bower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Frowns midst the roses - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
All things that make the rose - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XVI"
Pelted with roses and rinsed with the rain - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"
Thus dividing rain and roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
Breath of roses and a prayer - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Kind enough to give of roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Neighbor's Roses"
And roses tumbling round - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Old House and the Weather"
In the company of dried roses - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
That wells and flows from every leopard, lark and rose - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
On a couch of lavish roses - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"
Plucked from the roses of your days - Victor Hugo "More Strong Than Time" transl. by Andrew Lang
Roses of lucid shadow - Aldous Huxley "Italy"
Of lilies dead and turned to roses - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"
Roses red as an angry dawn - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"
A rose of fire that must blossom - Aldous Huxley "Waking"
Left a dream of roses - Fay Inchfawn "Early Spring"
A bloom as of blush roses - Jean Ingelow "Songs with Preludes: Wedlock"
As a rose refolding toward evening - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"
As sleeps the patient rose - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"
A rose crowned song - Fenton Johnson "Your Soul and Mine"
Like a rose of the south - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
Fading through all of the tints of the rose - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
Red wreckage of the rose - Lionel Johnson "In England"
A crown of roses and of bay - Lionel Johnson "Men of Assisi"
Roses dropping from his hair - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"
More than roses love the sun - Edward Smyth Jones "To Estelle"
rosy cheeks plumped with rapture - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"
Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
Red rose petals scattered everywhere - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"
Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
From every rose a spider - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"
And Lilith roses dipped in wine - Joyce Kilmer "Ballade of My Lady's Beauty"
Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"
A valley sweet with rose and vine - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"
Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"
When roses bloom most fully - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Into the clouds of loose, lush roses - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"
Burdened with the rose - Archibald Lampman "June"
The universe of the unfolded rose - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"
Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"
A rose beneath your feet - Amy Levy "A Waltz Song"
How many times have the roses bloomed? - Li Po "Thinking of East Mountain" transl. by Burton Watson
Scented of roses and fire - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"
Smell the first summer rose - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"
Raw rose crystal - Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. By Sarah Arvio) "[To find a kiss of yours]"
Rose and gold arabesqued with the song of birds - Amy Lowell "Azure and Gold"
Fill my lap with roses gathered in the milky way - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"
Above me in a wheel of roses - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
The fallen roses of outlived minutes - Amy Lowell "A Lady"
Echo in faint rose over the pavement - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
With a rose's red heart's tide - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
As she culls the blood red rose - E.M. "Part II. The Garden of Sleep"
A city framed of rose and gold - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Gatekeeper"
Worked with rose and saffron - Dorothea Mackellar "Bazar"
Take a rose by the throat - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 1"
In the bursting buds of roses - Douglas Malloch "June"
The color of the roses that spy - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
Has neither rose nor red nor gold - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"
Who set snares with roses - Don Marquis "The Struggle"
Mock the roses flung away - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
As roses slowly blush a deeper color - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
If thorns instead of roses suit - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
The watered garden of the Mystic Rose - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"
Starry lands where mystic roses shine - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
Purple rose before the thorn - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
Roses plucked in June - Louis J. McQuilland "With Bertha Up the River"
Solely in that cherished Rose - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"
Heavenly Rose to swelling sea - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"
As dewlight off the rose - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
You do not miss a rose - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
The roots of last year's roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: VIII"
Why bewilder her with roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Epitaph"
Under centuries of fine dead dust of roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet VI from Second April
Unless I smell the Carthaginian rose - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"
The roots of last year's roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
The stolen rose on its stem - Jim Moore "Twenty Questions"
All around, roses glow in nebula tints - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
The days of the roses glow in the drift - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Sent roses by another name - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Cover him with rose and eglantine - Louise Chandler Moulton "For Cupid Dead"
The roses in a waste of weeds - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
Only this withered rose - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
From their rosy dreams awake - Francis Neilson "The Boon"
Not a bed of thornless roses - Marilyn Nelson "The Baby Picture Guessing Game"
Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Shaken by a broken rose - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Blunted star, hostile rose - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Bloody roses and goblets of ashes - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The soul rises with instant roses - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A rose of hatred and pins - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A heavy rose in silver and leather - Pablo Neruda "Saddlery" transl by Jack Schmitt
Hears the rose of yesterday - Pablo Neruda "Tina Modotti Is Dead" translated by Donald D. Walsh
This royal promise of the rose - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"
Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The horse of the wallpaper powdered with roses - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Lands of olive and the rose - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
With throats like nipped roses - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
That the thorn and rose are wed - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
A time before the rose - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"
Taste the bitter juice of roses - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"
Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Out of the wild briar evoked the rose - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Hid in the heart of a rose - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
Could live inside this rose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"
That makes the rose about me and gnashes at thorns - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Belle"
Aspirin in this sunset of roses - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"
Birth & blood is the rose - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Went down like a thousand roses - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
Count the roses, wrinkled and salt - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
The last roses of the sunset - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"
Except in the splurge of roses - Mary Oliver "Work"
The red rose is a falcon - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
And the white rose is a dove - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
A rose made from cellophane - Gregory Orr "Domestic Life"
A red rose for my helmet - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"
The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"
With roses adorning - Walter S. Percy "Youth"
I have hung our cave with roses - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"
I see His blood upon the rose - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
The first roses of the year - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
A rose whose crimson breath revealed - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"
Just because the rose has blossomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
From the heart of an opening rose - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Rose and rosebud on one stem - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"
Your roses are too fair for earth - Theodore H. Rand "Glory-Roses"
Like the tides and the stars and the rose - Theodore H. Rand "The Note of Nature"
O rose in the mirror of time - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"
A labyrinth of black roses - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
Wore the rose of pain - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Eleven petals about the rose - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
Sweet as many roses on one stem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Rose heart of many thousand mornings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
In strands of shattered rose - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
A dime for a wired rose - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"
Like a red rose rinsed with rain - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
Roses, too, both red and pink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Lovely Child"
And the Roses and Thistles, agree to entwine - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Labyrinths of lavender and rose - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
Why the tangled roses breathe so softly to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
Roses thrown on marble stairs - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Gift of God"
Sudden blossoming of one more rose - Alice Wellington Rollins "Influence"
The rose of love bewilderingly sweet - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Rose"
With the tremulous breath of roses - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"
The roses entrancing the night - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"
Lay your costly roses down - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Rosy apple, lemon, or pear - "Rosy Apple, Lemon, or Pear"
Bunch of roses she shall wear - "Rosy Apple, Lemon, or Pear"
To mourn among my scattered roses - Christina Rossetti "An October Garden"
A rose has thorns as well as honey - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"
Wearing wild red roses on her tongue - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"
The rose flees from autumn - Rumi "The World Gave Thee False Clues" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
That fall on the roses in May - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"
Here is dust remembers it was a rose - Carl Sandburg "Dust"
Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"
For thorns and roses there outspread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Glowing all around with red roses - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
Filled your canvas curves with rose - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
Roses with their hearts of gold - Virna Sheard "Dreams"
The word a rose breathes to a bird - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
To return us like fossilized roses - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Where fallen roses stir - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Waning rose by ungathered rose - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
From autumn's grey, forgotten roses - Clark Ashton Smith "November Twilight"
Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
Starward incense of the waning rose - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Golden stem of roses of illusion - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Beloved"
Dripping the repeated roses - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"
Down in the land of roses - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Ahead a rose wreathed laurel - Clarence Victor Stahl "Push Onward"
And crowns utility with rose - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"
When the dew-drop feeds the roses - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Elfin Song"
Lone and everlasting rose of light - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Rose whose thorn is ecstasy - George Sterling "Doubt and Worship"
And on thy mouth lost roses - George Sterling "Hesperia"
A rose of sorrow and change - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
As dust that gathered to a rose - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Would lie on shattered roses - George Sterling "To Vera (5)"
My thicket yields a rose - M. Letitia Stockett "Free"
The keepers of the roses have shut the garden-gate - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"
Danced it to dust and drugged it with the rose - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Must pay the rose's price - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Redolent with balm of myrtle, orange, and the rose - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
The future is strewn with the roses of hope - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Hid my heart in a nest of roses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
Under the roses I hid my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
As burns the passion of the rose - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
Rain between the bowing heads of roses - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
With a burning rose hidden away - Sara Teasdale "Thoughts"
Blood of the rose and hyacinth - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
A rose finished with the business of becoming - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Glow voluptuous of the damask rose - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Tear the fresh rose from the garland of youth - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Roses in the sky, roses in the sea - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
Rose and fire together - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
Burning roses in a garden - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"
Made of rose and fire and mist - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
Dead roses lift their heads - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
If life were like a rose designed - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
The rose that cannot wither - Henry Vaughan "Peace"
Must kneel like a rose - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Look at us with eyes that missed the roses - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
Peer past the stripped arms of the rose - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
That throws across the pathway of my doom a rose - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"
Has heard the message of the Rose - Helen Hay Whitney "The Message"
Rose blossoms, traitors to the night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"
A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"
The roses of my heart shall bloom - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
Whose crimson roses burst his frost - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"
Rose hedges to the very water's brink - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Give me roses to remember - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
Roses dead and garlands broken - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
Neglectful of roses - Jay Wright "Sasa"
Far from the rose and the lily - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"
Uttermost attar of the living rose - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
And nights in rosy riot fly - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"
A rosy glimmer of flame remembered - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
Lifting the dawn with rosy feet - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"
From their rosy dreams awake - Francis Neilson "The Boon"
then temper it to golden-rose - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Used a rosebud for a brush - Tom Hall "The Perfect Face"
Rose and rosebud on one stem - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"
When the rosebuds hide the thorns - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
And renew my faith in an ornamental rosebud - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Rose-coloured dreams adorning - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Dreams"
Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"
All this sky a rose-garden - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
A rosegold gown of smoke - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"
Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Quaint jars with rose-leaf memories - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
Received the rose-leaf soul - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Will mount again into rose-leaves - William Carlos Williams "History"
Crying from roseless lands - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"
Knotted as rose of Sharon - Michael Field "Relics"
Rose-rumours steal and stir - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"
Set the rose-shrouded sundial in shadow - Louise Morey Bowman "Green Apples"
Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
From the rose-tree of our hopes - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Rose water in black coffee - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
By sunshine, by rosewater, by the cactus flowers - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"
Pause hard by the rose-wreathed gate - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Through rose-wreathed halls of fantasy - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
Bowers of scarlet sky-roses - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
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A red rose just before it's dipped in liquid nitrogen - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
When blood is black roses - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Anywhere I look is born a rose - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Crown him with gems and roses - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"
And wakened the sleeping rose - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"
Receding on the path of dark spruce and roses - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"
Lounging nude atop the roses on the mantle - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Clad in diamonds of rose and black - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
And the glade of roses scream war - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
Gold rose petals spilled by the moon - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
In a fragrant shrine of climbing roses - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Roses fall, but the thorns remain - Anonymous Dutch proverb (I can't find a firmer source for this)
To bear the red rose company - "Babylon"
Gone with the roses and dew - Libbie C. Baer "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
And the rose withers on its virgin thorns - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Bestows her summer ices and her winter rose - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
The stricken lily puts the rose to shame - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Put to shame the white rose and the red - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"
Opening to foggy roses - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Will hide the thorns with roses - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Garland"
Where rue displaced the rose - Cora C. Bass "Light"
Till Autumn fades the rose - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
My rose of heart's delight - Charlotte Becker "Song"
A rose if its petals thought of snows - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Gave her youth like a burning rose - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Left with a heartbreak of roses - Paul Bernstein "Prodigal"
The rose assumed a dye more deep - Robert Blair "The Grave"
A single rose upon a wand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
As though unseen roses grazed him - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Moles have gnawed the rose tree at its root - Arna Bontemps "Lancelot"
They have broken roses down - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Unto the wine-filled rose - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 26"
Should never crave the rose - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"
Filtered through roses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Despite cold walls and roses - Sue Budin "Looking for My Brother's Grave"
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Passionate as the rose of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Dropped a rose of gold - William Canton "Song"
Your dreams of golden roses - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Behind the rose the planet - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
This is the joy of the rose - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"
That rose of awful mystery - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"
We can not mend torn roses - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Why the roses no longer grow at your feet - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
A crown of flinty spines about the rose - W.R. Childe "The Gothic Rose"
While the rose and the song are one - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Then lay your rose on the fire - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
Like the rose on its ladder of thorn - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
When the rose is queen - Arthur Colton "Martial to Pliny"
A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
A rose, a crimson rose! - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
Nearer to the cypress than the rose - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"
To-night the roses blow - Arthur Colton "To-Morrow"
That dallied with a crimson rose - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Whose heart is a rose - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"
The rose in its fragrance sleeps - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"
Sleeping boys and drowsy roses - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"
The rose already has many names - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
Blooming like a guarded rose - Susan Coolidge "By the Cradle"
To tell where a rose has been - Susan Coolidge "Embalmed"
The right of a rose to bloom - Susan Coolidge "My Rights"
More dazzling fair than summer roses are - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Bursts the rose of light - Susan Coolidge "On the Shore"
Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
So your roses turned to bread - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."
When my roses were at roses - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"
Geraniums and roses round me bloom - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Who would answer for the color of a rose - Nathalia Crane "The Blind Girl"
Her rivals have flouted the rose - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"
Called the roll of the roses - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"
On the field where the roses fell - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"
The wind in gardens where pale roses die - Adelaide Crapsey "Oh, Lady, Let the Sad Tears Fall"
Roses have set the borders on fire - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
If (and when) roses complain - e.e. cummings ???
Roses (you feel certain) will only smile - e.e. cummings ???
Probably made of roses & hello - E.E. Cummings "Post Impressions (VI)"
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
by oaks and roses deliberated - E. E. Cummings "Songs (II)"
A rose shall beget the spring - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
Roses with amber petals - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Rift on rift of rose and scattered light - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
But leave the stark core of the rose - H.D. "Night"
A wet rose single on a stem - H.D. "Sea Rose"
Made of flint and roses - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"
In dells of rose and meadowsweet - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Outnumber a noon's roses - Walter de la Mare "Nod"
The sky a full-blown rose - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"
Eating roses sprinkled with lime - Diana Marie Delgado "They Chopped Down the Tree I Used to Lie Under and Count Stars With"
Cuts roses with a hatchet - Diana Marie Delgado "Twelve Trees"
The rose is out of town - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXVIII: Autumn"
The roses in life's diverse bouquet - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXII: Gone"
Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
For roses my full store - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"
Tired of thornless roses - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"
Hard by asphodel and rose - Theodor Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
Thorns and love in the roses' bed - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Amid the Roses"
Burst rose of sharded light - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"
Too late for roses - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
Redeem the vanished rose of evening's dream - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
The fresh rose on yonder thorn - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
Shadows like black roses - B. H. Fairchild "The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955"
Loiters with the briar rose - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"
A rose torn in the careless frolic - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"
The lure of the roses is rare - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Where nevermore the rose of sunset pales - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
Rose fresher from the breeze - "Flora: a Vision"
Lavender instead of roses - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"
A mutant rose's neurotoxin - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"
White roses broke like foam - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
Grants us by silence the boon of her roses - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
Some wild, easily shattered rose - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"
To earthly rose and violet and blue - Zona Gale "Light"
Sure that a rose answered me - Zona Gale "Roses"
Always the reticence of roses - Zona Gale "Roses"
A rose would never admit me - Zona Gale "Roses"
Outlined like a rose - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
The virgin sisterhood of roses - Manmohan Ghose "Mentem Mortalia Tangunt"
In the garden of my shame growing roses - Andrea Gibson "Bad at Love"
Redder and redder burns the rose - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"
Roses white and lilies tender - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Merging with the shadows of the roses - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
Rose stark in ecstasy of fire - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"
Banners of white fire and rose - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"
The rose is fenced by the thorn - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
And make roses of the daisies - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"
The night-wind trembling round the rose - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"
Jagged as a red-rose thorn - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"
During the rose and lily's reign - Hafiz "The Divan XXIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Cold as the heart of a colorless rose - Katherine Hale "Christmas Eve"
Dancing in a rose of joy - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
A rose of fire and snow - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
A common miracle of salt roses - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
A steady tattoo of roses - Joy Harjo "We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future"
In search of midnight roses - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
To gather a rose by the light of stars - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
On thorns (and roses) treading - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Careys"
Stand again in rose and purple - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Trimmin's on the Rosary"
Glowing rose and pensive pansy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"
Sweet as the dusty roses - F.W. Harvey "On Over Bridge at Evening"
Its roses turned to holly - F.W. Harvey "The Philosopher Visits the Night Club"
Drew the balsam from the rose - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"
I will ask the rose - Walter Everette Hawkins "Ask Me Why I Love You"
Exhaled from rose and citron bower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Frowns midst the roses - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
All things that make the rose - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XVI"
Pelted with roses and rinsed with the rain - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"
Thus dividing rain and roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
Breath of roses and a prayer - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Kind enough to give of roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Neighbor's Roses"
And roses tumbling round - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Old House and the Weather"
In the company of dried roses - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
That wells and flows from every leopard, lark and rose - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
On a couch of lavish roses - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"
Plucked from the roses of your days - Victor Hugo "More Strong Than Time" transl. by Andrew Lang
Roses of lucid shadow - Aldous Huxley "Italy"
Of lilies dead and turned to roses - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"
Roses red as an angry dawn - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"
A rose of fire that must blossom - Aldous Huxley "Waking"
Left a dream of roses - Fay Inchfawn "Early Spring"
A bloom as of blush roses - Jean Ingelow "Songs with Preludes: Wedlock"
As a rose refolding toward evening - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"
As sleeps the patient rose - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"
A rose crowned song - Fenton Johnson "Your Soul and Mine"
Like a rose of the south - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
Fading through all of the tints of the rose - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
Red wreckage of the rose - Lionel Johnson "In England"
A crown of roses and of bay - Lionel Johnson "Men of Assisi"
Roses dropping from his hair - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"
More than roses love the sun - Edward Smyth Jones "To Estelle"
rosy cheeks plumped with rapture - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"
Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"
Red rose petals scattered everywhere - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"
Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
From every rose a spider - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"
And Lilith roses dipped in wine - Joyce Kilmer "Ballade of My Lady's Beauty"
Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"
A valley sweet with rose and vine - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"
Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"
When roses bloom most fully - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Into the clouds of loose, lush roses - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"
Burdened with the rose - Archibald Lampman "June"
The universe of the unfolded rose - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"
Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"
A rose beneath your feet - Amy Levy "A Waltz Song"
How many times have the roses bloomed? - Li Po "Thinking of East Mountain" transl. by Burton Watson
Scented of roses and fire - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"
Smell the first summer rose - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"
Raw rose crystal - Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. By Sarah Arvio) "[To find a kiss of yours]"
Rose and gold arabesqued with the song of birds - Amy Lowell "Azure and Gold"
Fill my lap with roses gathered in the milky way - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"
Above me in a wheel of roses - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
The fallen roses of outlived minutes - Amy Lowell "A Lady"
Echo in faint rose over the pavement - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
With a rose's red heart's tide - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
As she culls the blood red rose - E.M. "Part II. The Garden of Sleep"
A city framed of rose and gold - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Gatekeeper"
Worked with rose and saffron - Dorothea Mackellar "Bazar"
Take a rose by the throat - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 1"
In the bursting buds of roses - Douglas Malloch "June"
The color of the roses that spy - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
Has neither rose nor red nor gold - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"
Who set snares with roses - Don Marquis "The Struggle"
Mock the roses flung away - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
As roses slowly blush a deeper color - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
If thorns instead of roses suit - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
The watered garden of the Mystic Rose - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"
Starry lands where mystic roses shine - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
Purple rose before the thorn - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
Roses plucked in June - Louis J. McQuilland "With Bertha Up the River"
Solely in that cherished Rose - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"
Heavenly Rose to swelling sea - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"
As dewlight off the rose - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
You do not miss a rose - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
The roots of last year's roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: VIII"
Why bewilder her with roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Epitaph"
Under centuries of fine dead dust of roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet VI from Second April
Unless I smell the Carthaginian rose - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"
The roots of last year's roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"
The stolen rose on its stem - Jim Moore "Twenty Questions"
All around, roses glow in nebula tints - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
The days of the roses glow in the drift - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Sent roses by another name - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Cover him with rose and eglantine - Louise Chandler Moulton "For Cupid Dead"
The roses in a waste of weeds - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
Only this withered rose - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
From their rosy dreams awake - Francis Neilson "The Boon"
Not a bed of thornless roses - Marilyn Nelson "The Baby Picture Guessing Game"
Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Shaken by a broken rose - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Blunted star, hostile rose - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Bloody roses and goblets of ashes - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The soul rises with instant roses - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A rose of hatred and pins - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A heavy rose in silver and leather - Pablo Neruda "Saddlery" transl by Jack Schmitt
Hears the rose of yesterday - Pablo Neruda "Tina Modotti Is Dead" translated by Donald D. Walsh
This royal promise of the rose - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"
Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"
War's red rose sprang blooming - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The horse of the wallpaper powdered with roses - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Lands of olive and the rose - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
With throats like nipped roses - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
That the thorn and rose are wed - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
A time before the rose - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"
Taste the bitter juice of roses - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"
Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Out of the wild briar evoked the rose - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Hid in the heart of a rose - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
Could live inside this rose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"
That makes the rose about me and gnashes at thorns - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Belle"
Aspirin in this sunset of roses - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"
Birth & blood is the rose - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Went down like a thousand roses - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
Count the roses, wrinkled and salt - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
The last roses of the sunset - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"
Except in the splurge of roses - Mary Oliver "Work"
The red rose is a falcon - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
And the white rose is a dove - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
A rose made from cellophane - Gregory Orr "Domestic Life"
A red rose for my helmet - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"
The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"
With roses adorning - Walter S. Percy "Youth"
I have hung our cave with roses - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"
I see His blood upon the rose - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
The first roses of the year - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
A rose whose crimson breath revealed - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"
Just because the rose has blossomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
From the heart of an opening rose - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Rose and rosebud on one stem - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"
Your roses are too fair for earth - Theodore H. Rand "Glory-Roses"
Like the tides and the stars and the rose - Theodore H. Rand "The Note of Nature"
O rose in the mirror of time - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"
A labyrinth of black roses - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
Wore the rose of pain - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Eleven petals about the rose - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
Sweet as many roses on one stem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Rose heart of many thousand mornings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
In strands of shattered rose - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
A dime for a wired rose - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"
Like a red rose rinsed with rain - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
Roses, too, both red and pink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Lovely Child"
And the Roses and Thistles, agree to entwine - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Labyrinths of lavender and rose - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
Why the tangled roses breathe so softly to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
Roses thrown on marble stairs - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Gift of God"
Sudden blossoming of one more rose - Alice Wellington Rollins "Influence"
The rose of love bewilderingly sweet - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Rose"
With the tremulous breath of roses - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"
The roses entrancing the night - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"
Lay your costly roses down - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Rosy apple, lemon, or pear - "Rosy Apple, Lemon, or Pear"
Bunch of roses she shall wear - "Rosy Apple, Lemon, or Pear"
To mourn among my scattered roses - Christina Rossetti "An October Garden"
A rose has thorns as well as honey - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"
Wearing wild red roses on her tongue - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"
The rose flees from autumn - Rumi "The World Gave Thee False Clues" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
That fall on the roses in May - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"
Here is dust remembers it was a rose - Carl Sandburg "Dust"
Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"
For thorns and roses there outspread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Glowing all around with red roses - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
Filled your canvas curves with rose - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
Roses with their hearts of gold - Virna Sheard "Dreams"
The word a rose breathes to a bird - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
To return us like fossilized roses - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Where fallen roses stir - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Waning rose by ungathered rose - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"
From autumn's grey, forgotten roses - Clark Ashton Smith "November Twilight"
Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
Starward incense of the waning rose - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
Golden stem of roses of illusion - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Beloved"
Dripping the repeated roses - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"
Down in the land of roses - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Ahead a rose wreathed laurel - Clarence Victor Stahl "Push Onward"
And crowns utility with rose - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"
When the dew-drop feeds the roses - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Elfin Song"
Lone and everlasting rose of light - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Rose whose thorn is ecstasy - George Sterling "Doubt and Worship"
And on thy mouth lost roses - George Sterling "Hesperia"
A rose of sorrow and change - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
As dust that gathered to a rose - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Would lie on shattered roses - George Sterling "To Vera (5)"
My thicket yields a rose - M. Letitia Stockett "Free"
The keepers of the roses have shut the garden-gate - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"
Danced it to dust and drugged it with the rose - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Must pay the rose's price - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Redolent with balm of myrtle, orange, and the rose - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
The future is strewn with the roses of hope - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Hid my heart in a nest of roses - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
Under the roses I hid my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
As burns the passion of the rose - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
Rain between the bowing heads of roses - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
With a burning rose hidden away - Sara Teasdale "Thoughts"
Blood of the rose and hyacinth - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
A rose finished with the business of becoming - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Glow voluptuous of the damask rose - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Tear the fresh rose from the garland of youth - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Roses in the sky, roses in the sea - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
Rose and fire together - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
Burning roses in a garden - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"
Made of rose and fire and mist - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
Dead roses lift their heads - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
If life were like a rose designed - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
The rose that cannot wither - Henry Vaughan "Peace"
Must kneel like a rose - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Look at us with eyes that missed the roses - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
Peer past the stripped arms of the rose - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
That throws across the pathway of my doom a rose - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"
Has heard the message of the Rose - Helen Hay Whitney "The Message"
Rose blossoms, traitors to the night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"
A pale and crownless rose - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"
The roses of my heart shall bloom - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
Whose crimson roses burst his frost - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"
Rose hedges to the very water's brink - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Give me roses to remember - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
Roses dead and garlands broken - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
Neglectful of roses - Jay Wright "Sasa"
Far from the rose and the lily - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"
Uttermost attar of the living rose - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
And nights in rosy riot fly - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"
A rosy glimmer of flame remembered - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
Lifting the dawn with rosy feet - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"
From their rosy dreams awake - Francis Neilson "The Boon"
then temper it to golden-rose - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Used a rosebud for a brush - Tom Hall "The Perfect Face"
Rose and rosebud on one stem - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"
When the rosebuds hide the thorns - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
And renew my faith in an ornamental rosebud - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Rose-coloured dreams adorning - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Dreams"
Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"
All this sky a rose-garden - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
A rosegold gown of smoke - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"
Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Quaint jars with rose-leaf memories - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
Received the rose-leaf soul - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Will mount again into rose-leaves - William Carlos Williams "History"
Crying from roseless lands - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Of roseless thorns to crown and bind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"
Knotted as rose of Sharon - Michael Field "Relics"
Rose-rumours steal and stir - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"
Set the rose-shrouded sundial in shadow - Louise Morey Bowman "Green Apples"
Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
From the rose-tree of our hopes - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Rose water in black coffee - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
By sunshine, by rosewater, by the cactus flowers - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"
Pause hard by the rose-wreathed gate - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Through rose-wreathed halls of fantasy - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
Bowers of scarlet sky-roses - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"
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