The Meaning of Rose Colors

Red Rose - Love, beauty, respect
Red roses are given to those who you want to show love and passion, people who you have great respect for, and those who have shown great courage.The quantity can also have a special meaning.
A single red rose shows love, a dozen shows gratitude, twenty-five shows congratulations and fifty show unconditional love.
Two red roses tied together symbolizes an engagement.
The shade of the red has a meaning as well. Bright red means love, burgundy means unconscious love, dark crimson is used to show mourning. A withered red rose is used to show that the love is over.

Pink Rose - Appreciation, gratitude

Pink roses in general are given to those whom you want to show thankfulness, admiration, and happiness. The different shades of pink can have more precise meanings. Yellow Rose - Joy, Gladness, Friendship

They are given to new mothers, newlyweds, and graduates. They're also used as a reminder to a loved one to show that you care. In the past yellow was used to show jealousy and a decrease of love.

Peach Rose - Appreciation, Lets get together

Pale Peach Rose - Modesty

Coral Rose - Desire

Lavender Rose - Love at First Sight, Enchantment

Lavender roses show that you have fallen in love with someone from the moment you saw them. It also can be given to those who you feel are very unique, and those who you feel are enchanting.

Orange Rose - Enthusiasm, Desire, Fascination

Orange roses are given to those who you desire, those you want to get to know better, or those who you are proud of.

Black Rose - Death, farewell

Blue Rose - The unattainable, the impossible

Single in any color - Simplicity, Gratitude

Red Rosebud - Symbolic of purity and loveliness

White Rose - Symbolic of girlhood
White roses are given to those who are innocent, reverent, and pure. They are very commonly used in weddings. They can also be given as a sign of secrecy. A white rosebud is used to show girlhood.A white rose that has been dried means "Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue". A whithered white rose represents fleeting beauty, or given to show that no impression was made.

The Thorn less Rose - Love at first sight

Roses For Katherine Bregy

Roses
(For Katherine Bregy)
I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring,

For I would make a posy, a posy for the King.

I got an hundred roses, the loveliest there be,

From the white rose vine and the pink rose bush and from the red rose tree.

But when I took my posy and laid it at His feet

I found He had His roses a million times more sweet.

There was a scarlet blossom upon each foot and hand,

And a great pink rose bloomed from His side for the healing of the land.

Now of this fair and awful King there is this marvel told,

That He wears a crown of linked thorns instead of one of gold.

Where there are thorns are roses, and I saw a line of red,

A little wreath of roses around His radiant head.

A red rose is His Sacred Heart, a white rose is His face,

And His breath has turned the barren world to a rich and flowery place.

He is the Rose of Sharon, His gardener am I,

And I shall drink His fragrance in Heaven when I die.

Rose Petal Beads

The heat of your body causes the beads to give off the smell of the rose.
In enamel pan place one pound of red rose petals with just enough water to cover.
Simmer very slowly for one hour but do not boil.Cover and let stand over night.
Repeat these steps three more times.
By the fourth day,the petals and water will have become a smooth paste.
Take a small amount and roll it between your palms ,forming beads 1/4 inch in diameter.
Pierce each ball with a needle for stringing and let the beads dry on newspaper in a warm closet.
Thread the beads onto silk thread for your necklace.
These beads are sturdier than you would think,lasting several years and keeping their fragrance. They turn a polished red Sienna color.

Shakespeare's Sonnet LIV

Shakespeare's Sonnet LIV
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem

By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem

For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye

As the perfumed tincture of the roses,

Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly

When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:

But, for their virtue only is their show,

They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,Die to themselves.

Sweet roses do not so;Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:

And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,

When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

Roses

Roses~George Eliot

You love the roses - so do I.

I wishThe sky would rain down roses, as they rain

From off the shaken bush.

Why will it not?

Then all the valley would be pink and white

And soft to tread on.

They would fall as light

As feathers, smelling sweet: and it would be

Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once.

The Secret Rose Garden

The Secret Rose Garden
by Mahmud Ibn 'Abd Al-Kar Shabistari, Florence Lederer (Foreword by), David Fideler, PH.D. (Editor)
About this title: The mystic verse of Shabistari, written during a period of fierce conflict between Christianity and Islam in the fourteenth century, must be considered among the greatest poetry of any time or land. Restating ibn 'Arabi's ideas in poetic form and treating such themes as the Spiritual Journey, Time and This Dream-World, and the ecstasy of Divine Inebriation, it bears perennial witness to the capabilities and destiny of humanity. While he was deeply rooted in the Sufi mystical tradition, there are no cultural gaps to be bridged, for he was keenly aware of that one unique truth which all religions strive to approximate. Thus he writes: "'I' and 'you' are but the lattices, / In the niches of a lamp, / Through which the One Light shines. / 'I' and 'you' are the veil / Between heaven and earth; / Lift this veil and you will see / No longer the bonds of sects and creeds. / When 'I' and 'you' do not exist, /What is mosque, what is synagogue? / What is the Temple of Fire."