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“They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.”

Love Art Young Left Memories Flower Summer Rose Thee Bereavement Lucy

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.”

May Eye Form Night Memories Race Virtue Grace Divine Rose Thee Sigh

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.”

Long Doe Helping Memories Pieces Rivers Rose Forgotten Glasses Woods Bones Sunset Chairs Stomach Floating Pencils Pact

Author:Gunter Grass

“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.”

Littles Hands Beautiful Asks Memories Thousand Summer Red Rose Dusk Crimson Little Hands Red Leaves

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”

Social Felt Memories Poor Compassion Vision Dresses Rose Workers Caught Remembered Branches Fence Curves Social Work Thorns Symbolism Social Worker Clutch Ragged Rose Bush Detaining

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.”

Firsts Wells Made Natural Memories Talent Evidence Bills Rose Clean Clinton Conversion Mess Diamond Autobiography Dna Convenience Natural Talent Clarification Dna Evidence

Author:George Will

“Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells Memories Sweet Blessed Rose Smell Feds Guests Jars Good Thoughts

Book:John Ploughman's Talks

Source: John Ploughman's Talks

“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.”

Thinking Children Memories Childhood Future Our Children Raises Rose Forgotten Painful Surface Compare

Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

“I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.”

Looks Water Memories Roles Grew Lucky Husband Majors Grew Up My Friends Ideals Rose Profession Arcadia Ideal Husband

Author:Samantha Bond