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Flowers-Woodbine: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The water-lily starts and slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Tho' anchor'd to the bottom.— TENNYSON — The Princess. IV. L. 236.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying, - Hardhack, and virgin's-bower, And white-spiked clethra-flower.— WHITTIER — The Maids of Attitash.

Rapaciously we gathered flowery spoils From land and water; lilies of each hue, - Golden and white, that float upon the waves, And court the wind.— WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. IX L. 540

Windflower. Anemone. Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers frail and fair.— BRYANT — The Arctic Lover.

The little windflower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.— BRYANT — A Winter Piece.

The starry, fragile windflower, Poised above in airy grace, Virgin white, suffused with blushes, Shyly droops her lovely face.— ELAINE GOODALE — The First Flowers.

Thou lookest up with meek, confiding eye Upon the clouded smile of April's face, Unharmed though Winter stands uncertain by, Eyeing with jealous glance each opening grace.— JONES VERY — The Windflower.

Woodbine. Lonicera. And stroke with listless hand' The woodbine through the window, till at last I came to do it with a sort of love.— E. B. BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. I.

A filbert-hedge with wild-briar overtwined, And clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind Upon their summer thrones.— KEATS — I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little

Hill. And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.— TENNYSON — Maud. Pt. XXII. St. L