Flowers

Famous quotes containing the word flowers:

“The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men
Now far from home,”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

“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)

“These are thy wonders, Lord of love,
To make us see we are but flowers that glide.
Which when we once can finde and prove,
Thou hast a garden for us where to bide.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)