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)