Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Fountain http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page227, st. 3 (1839)
“A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.”
Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press
Recollections of a Happy Life:Being the autobiography of of Marianne North, ed. Mrs John Addington Symonds, Macmillan (1892).
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign—
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
trans. Arthur Waley, p. 78
Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955)
“She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,
Grows cold even in the summer of her age.”
Act IV, scene i.
Œdipus (1679)
“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”
Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.
Source: The Induction (1563), Line 50, p. 311
