Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me,

That now she knows.

Waller

rose

Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose.

~Rupert Brooke

You spotted snakes with double tongue,

Thorny hedge-hogs, not be seen.


Midsummer Night's Dream

seen

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

J.B.Morton

The padre said."Whatever have you been and done and gone?"

W S Gilbert (of G and Sullivan )

done

One never notices what has been done ; one can only see what remains to be done .

Marie Curie

The thorns he spares when the rose is taken.

The rocks are left when he wastes the plain.

The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,

These remain.


Swinburne

Rose

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet .

William Shakespeare

name

'Yossarian? Is that his name? Yossarian? What the hell kind of name is Yossarian?'
Luitenant Scheisskopf had the facts at his fingertips.
'It's Yossarian's name, sir,' he explained.

~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,

One task more declined, one more footpath untrod.


Robert Browning

soul

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul,
and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

~ Vincent van Gogh

And though they sweep their hearths no less

Than maids were wont to do

Yet who of late for cleanliness

Finds sixpence in her shoe?


Corbet

Maid

Being an old maid is like death by drowning ,
a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle .

Edna Ferber

sensation

The great art of life is sensation,
to feel that we exist, even in pain.

~ Lord Byron

life

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Proverb

cherries

Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things

~ The Corrs

Spring

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love .

Lord Tennyson

spring

To begin at the beginning: It is spring,
moonless night in the small town,
starless and bible-black.

~Dylan Thomas

night

Through the night was made for loving ,
& the day returns too soon ,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon

Byron G. Gordon

light

And she was blinded by the light
Cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down, but she never got tight,
but she'll make it alright

~ Springsteen

light

When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world & wide ,
& that one talent which is death to hide .
Lodged with me useless.

John Milton

to

And they say that a hero could save us, I'm not gonna stand here and wait. I'll hold on to the wings of the eagles, watch as we all fly away.
~Chad Kroeger

they

I should've read the novels
Believed every word
But the stories they wrote
Were so different to ones that I'd heard

~The Beautiful South

stories

She likes stories that make her cry -
I think we all do , it's so nice to feel sad
when you've nothing particular to be sad about .

Annie Sullivian

be

If I ever write the story of my life, don't be suprised if you're where it begins.

Rascall Flatts

story

And the sound we make together
Is the music to the story in your eyes
It's been shining down upon us, now
I realize

Justin Hayward

I

How can I stand here with you, and not be moved by you?

Jason Wade~Lifehouse~Everything

To love or not, in this we stand or fall.

Milton (not the Monster)

Love

All You Need Is Love..

John Lennon

Love, look at the two of us,

Strangers in every way.

Let's take a lifetime to say,

I knew you well.........


Carpenters

Strangers

Strangers in the night
Two lonely people we were
Strangers in the night
Up to the moment when we
Said our first hello
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away
A warm embracing dance away


Peter Baumann

strangers

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers .

Tennessee Williams

always

"She said 'It's cold outside' and she hands me my raincoat. She's always worried about things like that."

Rob Thomas~Matchbox 20~3am

As cold as any stone.

Henry V (WS)

stone

"If a great wave shall fall, it'll fall upon us all. In between the sand and stone could you make it on your own."

The Calling~Wherever You Will Go

sand

To see a World in a grain of sand ,
And a Heaven in a wild flower ,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand ,
And Eternity in a hour .

William Blake

Three years she grew in sun and shower

Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower

On Earth was never sown

This child I to myself will take

She will be mine and I will take

A Lady of my own.


Wordsworth

lady

I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful, a faery's child
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

~ John Keats

The land of Faery

Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,

Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,

Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

Yeats

Grave

I shall soon be laid in the queit grave --thank God for the queit grave--O ! I can feel the cold earth upon me --the daisies growing over me-- O for this queit- it will be my first .

John Keats