"O, fair day-lily whose
blossoms curl obliquely back, one whose summer's day the beauty's live
these into garlands may the maiden's twine."
Johann Strauss |
"Hail, brave snapdragon!
As old wives say, thou driv'st nocturnal sprights away."
Abraham Cowley |
"I met a little lady, she
wore a scarlet cap. A fairy, airy creature, her name was columbine."
Mary Frances Hewitt |
"April stirs sleepy roots
with Spring rain." T.S. Eliot |
"Pray God send thee but one
handful of heavenly heart's ease which passeth all the pleasant flowers
that grow in this worlde."
William Bullein |
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"Ah let me weave a chaplet
for your hair, of pale rose lilacs, lady fair, the flower I gather, love,
for your sweet sake, breathes love that neither time nor ill can shake."
Persian love song |
"A thing of beauty is a joy
forever, and such are daffodils, within the green world." Keats |
"My garden has a friendly
air; gated fence and a praying rock beneath a dogwood tree."
Lucille Thompson |
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