“ Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above; And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless My senses with the sight of her I love. ”
- Horatio Smith- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. ”
- John McCrae- Copy
- 824
“ Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
- 918
“ Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 188
“ Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
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“ And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. ”
- Bayard Taylor- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn; Yet juice of subtile virtue lies Within my cup of curious dyes. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
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“ Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there Are seeds for every romance, or light Whiff of a dream for a summer night. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
- 2.8K
“ That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. ”
- E. J. Hobsbawm- Copy
- 35
“ But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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