“A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.”
Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.
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English poet and critic 1802–1884Related quotes
“O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,
Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”
Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?”
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (1955)
Context: Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
“Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom
To believe in the good in man.”
Lyrics of "Loved by the Sun", on the soundtrack of the film Legend (1986).
“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers.”
"Israfel", st. 7 (1831).
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5
A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson http://www.4literature.net/William_Cullen_Bryant/Scene_on_the_Banks_of_the_Hudson/, st. 3 (1828)