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The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Rose Family (l. 1-4). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Sacred Emily (written 1913), published in Geography and Plays (1922).
Thought to refer to the artist Sir Francis Rose, one of whose paintings was hung in her Paris drawing-room.)
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Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time.")
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Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meager flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. Sea Rose (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company CP-Dool.)
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The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.
(Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. Daisy (l. 37-40). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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You, of course, are a rose—
But were always a rose.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Rose Family (l. 9-10). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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There growes the flowre of peace,
The Rose that cannot wither,
(Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. Peace (l. 14-15). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
(Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), British poet. The Heart's Journey, no. 7 (1928).)
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. An Essay on Man (Fr. Epistle I). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. The Eve of St. Agnes (l. 136). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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