Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

“All for me? And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
That could take me from beside you
For the ages of a day?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“I got me flowers to straw thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“Our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herbs
Swarming with caterpillars.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)