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Herbage: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Grass grows at last above all graves.— JULIA C. R. DORR — Grass-Grown.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes

of Johnson. P. 100. The green grass floweth like a stream Into the ocean's blue.— LOWELL — The Sirens. L. 87.

The gadding vine.— MILTON — Lycidas. L. 40.

A barren detested vale, you see it is; The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe.— Shakespeare — Titus Andronicus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 93.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!— Shakespeare — Tempest. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 52.

If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss; Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 179.

Pun-provoking thyme. X.— SHENSTONE — The Schoolmistress. St. 11.