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And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty's sweet nearer. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Flower in a Letter You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. II) 'Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell. - Robert Browning, Up at a Villa--Down in the City (st. 6) Bring the tulip and the rose, While their brilliant beauty glows. - Eliza Cook The tulip is a courtly quean, Whom, therefore, I will shun. - Thomas Hood, Flowers Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight. - Amy Lowell, A Tulip Garden Not one of Flora's brilliant race A form more perfect can display; Art could not feign more simple grace Nor Nature take a line away. - James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike. - James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root Dutch tulips from their beds Flaunted their stately heads. - James Montgomery, The Adventure of a Star Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, Bending beneath the invisible west-wind's sighs. - Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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