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A Red, Red Rose
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Great Literary Gifts site navigation "A Red, Red Rose" begins with a quatrain containing two similes. Burns compares his love with a springtime blooming rose and then with a sweet melody. These are popular poetic images and this is the stanza most commonly quoted from the poem. continued here | |
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