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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. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. - Sir Edwin Arnold, Almond Blossoms Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Flower in a Letter The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth. - William Cullen Bryant Violets spring in the soft May shower. - William Cullen Bryant 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. - William Cullen Bryant Yet there upon that upland height The darlings of the early spring Blue violets--were blossoming. - Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. - Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, For a Silver Wedding 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"), Miscellaneous Poems--Spring 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, Violets 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, The Violet, (Frederick Ricord's translation) 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, Blue Violets 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, Spring Scatter Far and Wide Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. - Heinrich Heine The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. - Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs--Lyrical Interlude (9) The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. - Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs--New Spring (13) Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. - Robert Herrick, To Violets The violet is a nun. - Thomas Hood, Flowers 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), Songs and Chorus of the Flowers--Violets And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. - John Keats (1), I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill Violets!--deep-blue violets! April's loveliest coronets! There are no flowers grow in the vale, Kiss'd by the dew, woo'd by the gale,-- None by the dew of the twilight wet, So sweet as the deep-blue violet. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? - James Russell Lowell, Song 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, The Changeling 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, The Adventure of a Star Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth? - Thomas Moore, Desmond's Song Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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