To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother’s Arms (1724)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 12–15.
“For roses also blossom on the thorn,
And the fair lily springs from loathsome weed.”
Che de le spine ancor nascon le rose,
E d'una fetida erba nasce il giglio.
Canto XXVII, stanza 121 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“By riverside are cooing
A pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing
A maiden fair he loves.”
The Book of Poetry, "A Fair Maiden"
Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.
Canto 6, stanza 12
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II
“I saw the starry Tree
Eternity
Put forth the blossom Time.”
"Proteus" in The Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan (1884).
