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Flowers-Papaw: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Pea, Sweet. Lathyrus Odoratus. The pea is but a wanton witch In too much haste to wed, And clasps her rings on every hand.— HOOD — Flowers.

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.— KEATS — I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little

Hill. Pimpernel. Anagallis Arvensis. The turf is warm beneath her feet, Bordering the beach of stone and shell, And thick about her path the sweet Red blossoms of the pimpernel.— CELIA THAXTER — The Pimpernel.

Pink. Dianthus. You take a pink, You dig about its roots and water it, And so improve it to a garden-pink, But will not change it to a heliotrope.— E. B. BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. VI.

And I will pu' the pink, the emblem o' my dear, For she's the pink o' womankind, and blooms without a peer.— BURNS — O Luve Will Venture In.

The beauteous pink I would not slight, Pride of the gardener's leisure.— GOETHE — The Floweret Wondrous Fair. St. 8. John S. Dwight's trans.

The wild pink crowns the garden wall, And with the flowers are intermingled stones Sparry and bright, rough scatterings of the hills.— WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. VI. L. 1,166.

Poppy. Papaver. I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need, A drowsy balm for every bitter smart. For happy hours the Rose will idly blow- The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.— MARY A. BARR — White Poppies.