Wild Roses Grow

Famous quotes containing the words wild, roses and/or grow:

    “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
    Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
    Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
    Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
    Pestilence-stricken multitudes.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow
    The way is lonely, let me feel them now.”
    —Arabella Smith (1844–1916)

    “Cruel children, crying babies,
    All grow up as geese and gabies,
    Hated, as their age increases,
    By their nephews and their nieces.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)