Rose Series – 58

“Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.”

Unknown Author

Rose Series – 57

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
Ben Hogan

Dried Rose – 19

“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Rose Series – 56

“I haven’t much time to be fond of anything … but when I have a moment’s fondness to bestow, most times … the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father’s nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.”

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

Rose Series – 55

“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dried Rose – 18

“Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.”
William Cullen Bryant

Dried Rose – 17

The Rose was sick, and smiling died;
And, being to be sanctified,
About the bed, there sighing stood
The sweet and flowery sisterhood.
Some hung the head, while some did bring,
To wash her, water from the spring;
Some laid her forth, while others wept,
But all a solemn fast there kept.
The holy sisters some among,
The sacred dirge and trental sung;
But ah! what sweets smelt everywhere,
As heaven had spent all perfumes there!
At last, when prayers for the dead,
And rites, were all accomplished,
They, weeping, spread a lawny loom,
And closed her up as in a tomb.

The Funeral Rites Of The Rose – Robert Herrick

Dried Rose – 16

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.”

Robert Herrick

Rose Series – 54

“A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”

Clive Bell

Rose Series – 53

“But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ― Arthur Conan Doyle