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“Early violets blue and white
Dying for their love of light.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes Source: Almond Blossoms
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“Deep violets, you liken to
The kindest eyes that look on you,
Without a thought disloyal.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: A Flower in a Letter
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“Stars will blossom in the darkness,
Violets bloom beneath the snow.”
Julia C.R. Dorr Quotes Source: For a Silver Wedding
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“Again the violet of our early days
Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,
And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.”
Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer") Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Poems--Spring
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“Cold blows the wind against the hill,
And cold upon the plain;
I sit me by the bank, until
The violets come again.”
Richard Garnett Quotes Source: Violets
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“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.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: The Violet, (Frederick Ricord's translation)
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“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!”
Dora Read Goodale Quotes Source: Blue Violets
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“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.”
Dora Read Goodale Quotes Source: Spring Scatter Far and Wide
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“The violets prattle and titter,
And gaze on the stars high above.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes Source: Book of Songs--Lyrical Interlude (9)
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“The eyes of spring, so azure,
Are peeping from the ground;
They are the darling violets,
That I in nosegays bound.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (13)
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“Welcome, maids of honor,
You doe bring
In the spring,
And wait upon her.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: To Violets
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“The violet is a nun.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Flowers
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“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.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),”
Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Quotes Source: Songs and Chorus of the Flowers--Violets
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“And shade the violets,
That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.”
John Keats Quotes Source: I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill
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“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward;
Rains fall, suns rise and set;
Earth whirls, and all but to prosper
A poor little violet.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Changeling
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“Violet! sweet violet!
Thine eyes are full of tears;
Are they wet
Even yet
With the thought of other years?”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Song
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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.”
James Montgomery Quotes Source: The Adventure of a Star
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“Hath the pearl less whiteness
Because of its birth?
Hath the violet less brightness
For growing near earth?”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Desmond's Song
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“Steals timidly away,
Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow.”
Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr) Quotes Source: Spring Violets Under the Snow
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“The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye,
To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.”
Frances S. Osgood Quotes Source: Garden Gossip (st. 3)
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“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.”
Christina G. Rossetti Quotes Source: "Consider the Lilies of the Field" (l. 13)
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“Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Duchess of York at V, ii)
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“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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at I, i)
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“And the violet lay dead while the odour flew
On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes Source: Music
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