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The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time. (Quote by - James Montgomery Boice)
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
And in my breast Spring wakens too; and my regret Becomes an April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star when only one Is shining in the sky. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free. (Quote by - William Wetmore Story)
When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from the last year's leaves below. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
Violets spring in the soft May shower. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. (Quote by - Henry James)
Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. (Quote by - Janos Bolyai)
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth? (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
The violet thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. (Quote by - Frances Sargent Osgood)
The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. (Quote by - Frances S. Osgood)
Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze. (Quote by - Ebenezer Elliott)
Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. (Quote by - Julia C.R. Dorr)
The sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The violet is a nun. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. (Quote by - Elizabeth Oakes Smith)
The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set; So rich she cannot hide from view, But covers all the bank with blue. (Quote by - Dora Read Goodale)
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow. (Quote by - Robert H. Newell)
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)
You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own-- What are you when the rose is blown? (Quote by - Sir Henry Wotton)
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Cold blows the wind against the hill, And cold upon the plain; I sit me by the bank, until The violets come again. (Quote by - Richard Garnett)
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew; The earth and sky, the day and night Are melted in her depth of blue! (Quote by - Dora Read Goodale)
And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
What thought is folded in thy leaves! What tender thought, what speechless pain! I hold thy faded lips to mine, Thou darling of the April rain. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain, For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again. (Quote by - Thomas Percy)
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. (Quote by - Bern Williams)
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
Here oft we sought the violet, as it lay Buried in beds of moss and lichens gray. (Quote by - Mrs. Sarah Helen Power Whitman)
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. (Quote by - Hal Borland )
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Banks that slope to the southern sky Where languid violets love to lie. (Quote by - Mrs. Sarah Helen Power Whitman)
The violets of five seasons reappear And fade, unseen by any human eye. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)
Yet there upon that upland height The darlings of the early spring Blue violets--were blossoming. (Quote by - Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr)
Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet. (Quote by - Wendy Insinger)
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. (Quote by - Frank Capra)
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. (Quote by - John Keats (1))
I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)