Rose/Catalogs

This is an annotated list of subjects pertaining to roses:

Roses in literature and song

• A red, red Rose – Robert Burns
• Red is the Rose – Irish folk song
• A rose by any other name (that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet) – William Shakespeare
• A rose is a rose is a rose - Gertrude Stein
• Roses are Red – children’s ditty
• Roses are Red – pup tune sung by Bobby Vinton
• Good-bye England's Rose - pop song by Elton John adapted from his earlier Candle in the Wind as a tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Kissed by a Rose - pop song sung by Seal
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco