English Flower Garden

Famous quotes containing the words english, flower and/or garden:

    “A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
    —Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)

    “But the flower leaned aside
    And thought of naught to say,
    And morning found the breeze
    A hundred miles away.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave,
    May I a small house and large garden have;
    And a few friends, and many books, both true,
    Both wise, and both delightful too!
    And since love ne’er will from me flee,
    A mistress moderately fair,
    And good as guardian angels are,
    Only beloved and loving me.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)