And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand…

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

— Francis Quarles

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

— Francis Quarles

I’m so sorry we’ll never meet,” she whispered, laying her posy atop the late Lord and Lady Payne’s grave. “But thank you. For him.…

— Tessa Dare

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

— Suzanne Collins

Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct.…

— Patch Adams

On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin,…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says…

— Suzanne Collins

But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative…

— Suzanne Collins

It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost…

— Hilary McKay

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

— Michel de Montaigne

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

— Sara Coleridge

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

— William Shakespeare

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every…

— Carolyn Wells

When roses aren't red and violets aren't blue that's when I'll stop loving you.

— Anonymous

Roses are red, violets are blue. God gave me five fingers, the middle one is for you!

— Anonymous