Summer 



"SWEET SUMMER BUDS" 



"Morning Roses Newly Washed with Dew" 



THE ROSE (Rosa). Shakespeare speaks of 

 the rose more frequently than any other 

 flower. Sixty references to the rose are 

 scattered through his works. Sometimes he talks of 

 the rose itself and sometimes he uses the word to 

 make a striking comparison, or analogy. With 

 magical touch he gives us the bold picture of a 

 Red rose on triumphant briar, 



then he brings before us a delicious whiff of the 

 Perfumed tincture of the roses, 



or the luscious fragrance of 



Morning roses newly washed with dew. 

 With equal delicacy of perception he tells us 



So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not 

 To those fresh morning drops upon the rose. 1 



'"Love's Labour's Lost"; Act IV, Scene III. 



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