| Ghost of a Rose | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Blackmore's Night |
| Cover: | ghost_of_a_rose.jpg |
| Released: | June 30, 2003 (Europe) August 30, 2003 (North America) |
| Recorded: | January/April 2003 |
| Genre: | folk rock, neo-Medieval |
| Length: | 60:19 |
| Label: | SPV Steamhammer (US) |
| Producer: | Pat Regan, Ritchie Blackmore |
| Prev Title: | Past Times with Good Company |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
Ghost of a Rose is the fourth studio album by the folk rock group Blackmore's Night, released June 30, 2003.[1] It features covers of Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust", and Jethro Tull's "Rainbow Blues".
Allusive to the alchemical feat of palingenesis by Paracelsus, the phrase "ghost of a rose" was first stated in the penultimate paragraph of the physician-philosopher Thomas Browne's 1658 discourse The Garden of Cyrus which concludes, "...and though in the Bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a Rose".