“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”

“Morality is truth in full bloom.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes book Elsie Venner

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

“Let not what thou canst not prevent, though it be the ruin of thy home or country, draw thee from thy proper work.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

“Thy possessions have made thee a hollow image; they have ruined thee and left thee.”

Ephrem the Syrian (306–373) Syriac deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century

“Let the children play
And sit like flowers upon thy grave
And crown with flowers,—that hardly have
A briefer blooming-tide than they.”

Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic

“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”

Aeschylus The Persians

“Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane…”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)