Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 883
“Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.”
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Doth logic in the lily hide,
And where's the reason in the rose?”
The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Rome", XLI, line 11; p. 116.
“Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,—
Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.”
Part II.
Pippa Passes (1841)
“Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew
Shut in a lily's golden core.”
Agnes, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 458.
“By cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the lily grows!”
"First Sunday After Epiphany", no. 2 (1812).
Hymns
“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”
Letter 310 to Mistress Taylor's on her son's death
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)
