“ But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours; How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory Are human flowers! ”
- Horatio Smith- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 892
“ I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 863
“ But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night! ”
- Bayard Taylor- Copy
- 803
“ And the wand-like lily which lifted up, As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup, Till the fiery star, which is its eye, Gazed through clear dew on the tender sky. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
- 37
“ And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much, Of dreamer turned to lover. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 3.6K
“ And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I, a light canoe will build me… that shall float upon the river, like a yellow leaf of autumn, like a yellow water lily! ”
- Hiawatha- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 703
“ Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ”
- The Bible- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I like not lady-slippers, Not yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Not yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. ”
- Earl of Kent- Copy
- 2.6K
“ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 420
“ It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily. ”
- Alexander Henry- Copy
- 2.2K
“ My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness — if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor — but as I am I must call it laziness… ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 2.2K
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