Our Friends
Lilies Quotes
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Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd, the lilies cry, "in robes like ours; How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory Are human flowers!" (Quote by - Horace (Horatio)
Smith)
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Quote by - Bible)
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night! (Quote by - Bayard Taylor)
And the wand-like lily which lifted up, As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup, Till the fiery star, which is its eye, Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see. (Quote by - David Macbeth Moir)
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men. (Quote by - John Masefield)
We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light; Nature held us forth, and said, "Lo! my thoughts of white. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt )
Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and vernal gales Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast. (Quote by - Mrs. Mary Tighe)
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much, Of dreamer turned to lover. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Quote by - Bible)
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? (Quote by - Francis Quarles)