Wither

Famous quotes containing the word wither:

“Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman’s fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
‘Cause another’s rosy are?”
—George Wither (1588–1667)

“Lovely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Honey of roses, wither wilt thou fly?”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn;
The tree will wither long before it fall;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)