Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
"Our Orders" in The Atlantic Monthly (July 1861).
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
A Sense of Wonder
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
“Blooms in its day and may not last forever.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist