“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~ Alphonse Karr
Photo by Richard Fogg
Everything yields
“Everything yields to diligence.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Photo by Richard Fogg
While ye may…
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may…” ~ Robert Herrick
Photo by Richard Fogg
Thorns have roses
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. ~ Alphonse Karr
His heart enclose
A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet—
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
“My fragile leaves, ” it said, “his heart enclose.”
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
With scented dew still wet
A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet—
One perfect rose.
~ Dorothy Parker
Janet Fogg / J.R.P. Fogg 