"Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand."
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"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season."
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"He wears the rose Of youth upon him."
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"Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song."
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"Since thy return, through days and weeks Of hope that grew by stealth, How many wan and faded cheeks Have kindled into health! The Old, by thee revived, have said, 'Another year is ours;' And wayworn Wanderers, poorly fed, Have smiled upon thy flowers."
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"The very flowers are sacred to the poor."
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"The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold."
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"Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love."
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"'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind."
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"Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine."
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"A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more."
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"The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
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"Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through."
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"I am hidden in your heart, O Flower."
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"We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers."
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"The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song."
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"Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root."
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"Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit."
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"The school sent you flowers. I’m sure that totally makes up for the fact that they hired the psychotic, soul-stealing pedophile who murdered you in your own home."
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"THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. “Thank God,” he says, pressing his forehead to the door. “I was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to … smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff."
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