John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5815 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5815 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 43. |