Margaret, here’s a fanciful personification of ‘Raubritter’ from the pen of Miriam Wilkins published in her Old Rosers Digest, April 1983, p.6:
…”Raubritter [the rose], the Robber Barron who steals your heart away every May. Only fair that he gives it back every June after a long period of bloom for then he dies in the most unseemly manner, a mess. When you see him in top form in your garden or cascading down into a fountain at Mottisfont, England, you forgive him his faults, offer heart, purse, whatever’s necessary to have him in your rose plot.” -Rosewild