Rose. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Rose


No flower embalm’d the air but one white rose, Which on the tenth of June by instinct blows. Churchill.—Prophecy of Famine, Line 207.	1
You languish like a drooping flower, Crush’d by the weight of some relentless shower. Garth.—The Dispensary, Canto VI. Line 266.	2
Like a white poppy sinking on the plain, Whose heavy head is overcharged with rain. Dryden’s Virgil.—Æneid, Book IX. Line 436.	3
But now with head declined, Like a fair flower surcharged with dew, she weeps. Milton.—Samson Agonistes. (Dalila enters.)	4
The rose had been wash’d, just wash’d in a shower, Which Mary to Anna convey’d, The plentiful moisture encumber’d the flower, And weigh’d down its beautiful head. Cowper.—The Rose, Verse 1.	5
The rose is fairest when ’tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm’d in tears. Scott.—Lady of the Lake, Canto IV. Verse 1.	6