When you're sad, and no-one knows it
I'll send you black roses
When your heart's dark and frozen
I'll send you black Roses
No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; since Eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original.
It's dark
It's dark where the roses grow
There's something that you should know
Before you see the light
It's dark
It's dark where the roses grow
There's places I have to go
Before I see the light
Et je croirais parfois, ô terrible Beauté,
Voir en toi l’Amazone à l’unique mamelle
Dont le coeur ne bat plus que pour la cruauté
Si je ne sentais pas, ô fraîche nouveauté!
Pointer sur ce sein où la fleur au fruit se mêle
Les boutons rougissants d’une rose jumelle.
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authrizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than their sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense -
Thy adverse party is thy advocate -
And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:
Such civil war is in my love and hate
That I an ccessary needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.