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Bed of roses

Bed of roses

English-language expression for a carefree life

For other uses, see Bed of roses (disambiguation).

Bed of roses is an English expression that represents a carefree life. This idiomatic expression is still popular.[1][2]

In Comforts of a Bed of Roses (1806), James Gillray caricatured Charles James Fox in the last few months of his life, which were neither easy nor peaceful.

In the thirteenth-century work Le Roman de la Rose (called "The French Iliad" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable), a Lover recounts his dream of touring a garden and finding a beautiful bed of roses by the Fountain of Love.

The expression is also used by later poets. Here is a line in Christopher Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. This was published posthumously in 1599; Marlowe died in 1593, stabbed to death[3]

And I will make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

References

  1. [1]
    "a bed of roses idiom". The Idioms.
  2. [2]
    "a bed of roses". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  3. [3]
    "Roman de la rose | French poem". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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