A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Lord Byron
Love
A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Lord Byron
Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 43.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.