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Flowers-Anemone: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.— WORDSWORTH — Sonnet. Not Love,

Not War, Nor, etc. There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness; The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue, The thyme her purple, like the blush of Even; And if the breath of some to no caress Invited, forth they peeped so fair to view, All kinds alike seemed favourites of Heaven.— WORDSWORTH — The River Duddon.

Flowers. VI. To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.— WORDSWORTH — Intimations of

Immortality. Part II.-Classified Flora. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 247. Anemone. Within the woods, Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast A shade, gray circles of anemones Danced on their stalks.— BRYANT — The Old Man's Counsel.

Thy subtle charm is strangely given, My fancy will not let thee be,- Then poise not thus 'twixt earth and heaven, O white anemone!— ELAINE GOODALE — Anemone.

Anemone, so well Named of the wind, to which thou art all free.— GEORGE MACDONALD — Wild Flowers. L. 9.

Anemones and seas of gold, And new-blown lilies of the river, And those sweet flow'rets that unfold Their buds on Camadera's quiver.— MOORE — Lalla Rookh. Light of the

Harem. A spring upon whose brink the anemones And hooded violets and shrinking ferns And tremulous woodland things crowd unafraid, Sure of the refreshing that they always find.— MARGARET J. PRESTON — Unvisited.

From the soft wing of vernal breezes shed, Anemones, auriculas, enriched With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Spring. L. 533.