Maiden

Famous quotes containing the word maiden:

    “Y’are the maiden posies,
    And so graced
    To be placed
    ‘Fore damask roses.

    Yet though thus respected
    By-and-by
    Ye do lie,
    Poor girls, neglected.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
    O sairer, sairer akes my head;
    And sairer, sairer ever will,
    The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.”
    —Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)

    “I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)