Famous Quotes - Tags - Flowers
- ... picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you. More
- A freak but moist flower
tangles my lungs, knits into my heart,
crawls up my... More
- A girl could only see
That a flower had marred a man,
But what she could not see
Was... More
- A nothing
we were, are, shall
remain, flowering:
the nothing—, the
no one’s... More
- A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely
sunflower existence! a sweet... More
- A quick caress she gives the rose,
Lilac, geranium all in season . . .
Oh, if she might... More
- A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting. More
- Ah! but my own, my dearest,
take for your gold-wrought locks
from my hands these... More
- Ah, could they know
how violets throw strange fire,
red and purple and gold,
how they... More
- Ah, Sun-flower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that... More
- All for me? And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
That could take me from beside... More
- All morning the
Morning has been blackening,
A flower left out. More
- All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring
In goodly colours gloriously... More
- An early dew woos the half-opened flowers More
- And after they have shown their pride
Like you a while, they glide
Into the grave. More
- And now—unwittingly, you’ve made me dream
Of violets, and my soul’s forgotten gleam. More
- And still
the dog rose shines in the hedge. More
- And weren’t there special cemetery flowers,
That, once grief sets to growing, grief may... More
- And ‘tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes. More
- Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play More
- As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valley More
- As if the spring were all your own,
What are you when the rose is blown? More
- At anchor she rides the sunny sod,
As full to the gunnel of flowers growing
As ever she... More
- Away before me to sweet beds of flowers.
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. More
- Band of iris-flowers
above the waves,
you are painted blue,
painted like a fresh... More
- Be assured that every man’s success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers... More
- bees
dig the plum blossoms More
- Before the last went, heavy with dew,
Back to the place from which she came
Where the... More
- Better than mortal flowers,
Thy moon-kissed roses seem: better than love or sleep,
The... More
- Black flowers burst out wherever the night has knelt. More
- But earthlier happy is the rose distilled
Than that which, withering on the virgin... More
- But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear. More
- But neither milk-white rose nor red
May bloom in prison air;
The shard, the pebble, and... More
- But O, young beauty of the woods,
Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
Gather the... More
- But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the... More
- But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid... More
- But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are... More
- But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the... More
- But waste was of the essence of the scheme.
And all the good they did for man or god
To... More
- Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried... More
- corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered
crown, seeds fallen out of... More
- Creamy bean flowers with black eyes and leaves like bored hearts.
Is it blood clots the... More
- Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty. More
- Daisies in water are the longest lasting
flower you can give to someone.
Fact.
Buy... More
- Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless... More
- Die of a rose in aromatic pain? More
- Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,
Do not forget what flowers
The great... More
- ethereal, their mauve
almost a transparent gray,
their dark veins
bruise-blue. More
- Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. More
- Fair are these petals
broken by your feet;
your horse’s hooves
tread softer than a... More
- Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising... More
- Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat, More
- Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and... More
- Flower sent to flower;
for white hands, the lesser white,
less lovely of flower leaf. More
- Flowers ... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. More
- Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as... More
- Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a... More
- Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of... More
- Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful... More
- For him nor deep nor hill there is,
But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers. More
- For you, O tumultuous flowers,
To go to waste and go wild in.... More
- Forgotten and stinking they stick in the can.
And the vase breath’s better and all, and... More
- Give me the roses while I live,
Something to cheer me on;
Useless the flowers you may... More
- Give me your poppies,
let their radiance spill
rapture
for ever;
love me,
O... More
- Half-opening her lips to the frost’s morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a... More
- Hark, hark, the lark at heaven’s gate sings,
And Phoebus’ gins arise,
His steeds to... More
- Heavily hangs the broad sunflower
Over its grave i’ the earth so chilly;
Heavily hangs... More
- Here tulips bloom as they are told;
Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English... More
- Here’s flowers for you:
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram,
The marigold, that goes... More
- How bravely thou becom’st thy bed! fresh lily,
And whiter than the sheets! More
- How I envy you death;
what could death bring,
more black, more set with sparks
to... More
- How like a prodigal doth nature seem,
When thou, for all thy gold, so common art!
Thou... More
- I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. More
- I could see that none were clumsy.
I could see that each was tight and firm.
Not one of... More
- I dared not meet the daffodils, More
- I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. More
- I have forgotten much, but still remember
The poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December. More
- I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet... More
- I know a little garden-close
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I... More
- I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. More
- I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept... More
- I please
To plant some more dew-wet anemones
That they may weep. More
- I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here. More
- I think the King is but a man, as I am. The violet smells to
him as it doth to me. More
- I waited alone, in the company of orchids, roses and violets who—like people waiting beside... More
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once... More
- I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not... More
- I will bring you the lily that laughs,
I will twine
with soft narcissus, the... More
- I would like to think that no one would die anymore
if we all believed in daisies
but the... More
- I
Am a pure acetylene
Virgin
Attended by roses,
By kisses, by cherubim,
By... More
- In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row, More
- In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips. More
- iris and lilac, birds
birds, yellow flowers
white flowers, the Diesel
does not let up... More
- It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street.... More
- It was as if a morning-glory
had bloomed in her throat
and all that blue
and small... More
- its crumbled yellow cup
and pale bleeding lips
fading to white
at the rim
of each... More
- Its farmers tell me that thousands of acres are flooded now, since the dams have been erected,... More
- Its flowers’ distilled honey is so sweet
It makes the butterflies intemperate. More
- Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room; More
- Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow
The way is lonely, let me feel them now. More
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