266 quotes found
“"Of what are you afraid my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh sir! the flowers they are wild " replied the timid creature.”
“If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left Sell one and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
“One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.”
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”
“The moon looks upon many night flowers the night flowers see but one moon.”
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
