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Flowers-Sunflower: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Miles and miles of golden green Where the sunflowers blow In a solid glow.— ROBERT BROWNING — A Lover's Quarrel. St. 6.

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.— BRYANT — The Death of the Flowers.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.— CALDERON — Magico Prodigioso. Sc. 3. Shelley's Trans.

Restless sunflower; cease to move.— CALDERON — Magico Prodigioso. Sc. 3. Shelley's Trans.

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.— COWLEY — Of Plants. Bk. IV. Of Flowers. The Poppy. L. 102.

With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.— ERASMUS DARWIN — Loves of the Plants. Canto I. L. 225. L. 225.

Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.— CAROLINE GILMAN — To the Ursulines.

And here the sunflower of the spring Burns bright in morning's beam.— EBENEZER ELLIOTT — The Wonders of the Lane. L. 77.

Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.— MONTGOMERY — The Sunflower.

Like sunflowers by the sides of brooks, Turn'd to the sun.— MOORE — The Summer Fête.

As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets, The same look which she turn'd when he rose.— MOORE — Believe Me, if all Those

Endearing Young Charms.