Violets

Famous quotes containing the word violets:

    Lay her i’th’earth,
    And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
    May violets spring.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)