“As a flower springs up secretly in a fenced garden, unknown to the cattle, torn up by no plough, which the winds caress, the sun strengthens, the shower draws forth, many boys, many girls, desire it.”
LXII
Carmina
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Ut flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis, Ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro, Quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber; Multi illum pueri, multae optavere puellae.
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Gaio Valerio Catullo 25
Latin poet -84–-54 BCRelated quotes

“Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.”
Of the Four Ages of Man.
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IX, p. 324

According to the Lady's Book of Flowers, 1842 , this is the centaury
Source: The London Literary Gazette, 1824
Source: Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel

Part I, section xxii, stanza 9
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)