Violets

Famous quotes containing the word violets:

“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Ah, could they know
how violets throw strange fire,
red and purple and gold,
how they glow
gold and purple and red
where her feet tread.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)