Home › By Author › Eliza Cook

Quotes by Eliza Cook

12 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

"The Light of the World." Pp. 107-108. For be sure our hearts would lose Future years of woe, If our courage could refuse The present hour with "No."— filed under Courage

the Vale of Chamouni. There spring the wild-flowers-fair as can be.— filed under Flirting

Who does not recollect the hours When burning words and praises Were lavished on those shining flowers, Buttercups and daisies?— filed under Flirting

Clover. Trifolium. Where the wind-rows are spread for the butterfly's bed, And the clover-bloom falleth around.— filed under Flowers-Clover

The citron-tree or spicy grove for me would never yield A perfume half so grateful as the lilies of the field.— filed under Flowers-Lily

Till gold flashed out from the wheat-ear brown, And flame from the poppy's leaf.— filed under Flowers-Poppy

I see the bright primroses burst where I stand, And I laugh like a child as they drip in my hand.— filed under Flowers-Poppy

Music, sweet music, sounds over the earth; One glad choral song greets the primrose's birth.— filed under Flowers-Poppy

The primrose opes its eye, And the young moth flutters by.— filed under Flowers-Primrose

"Three bunches a penny, primroses!" Oh, dear is the greeting of Spring, When she offers her dew-spangled posiés, The fairest creation can bring.— filed under Flowers-Primrose

Bring the tulip and the rose, While their brilliant beauty glows.— filed under Flowers-Thyme

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!— filed under Memory