'Tis like the birthday of the world,
when earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume;
There's crimson buds, and white and blue -
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms where they fell,
And sown the earth with
flowers.
~
Thomas Hood
Sweet is the breath of morn,
Her rising sweet with charm
of earliest birds;
Pleasant the sun
when first on this delightful land
He spreads his orient beam
on herb tree fruit and flower
~
John Milton
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On mountains, by rivers, in valleys, in hidden recesses,
there grow the plants, trees and herbs;
trees both great and small...
~
The Lotus Sutra
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And lucent dew spreads on the earth
to quicken roses and fragile thyme
and the sweet blooming honey lotus.
~
Sappho
In all places,
then,
in all seasons,
Flowers expand their light and soul like wings,
teaching us by most persuasive reasons
How akin they are to human things.
~
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then forth they all out of their baskets drew
Great store of flowers,
the honor
of the field
that to the sense
did fragrant odors yield.
~
Edmund Spencer
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance,
pray, love remember;
and there's pansies that's for thoughts.
~
William Shakespeare
Lavender's blue,
dilly dilly
lavender's green
when I am king
dilly dilly
you shall be queen
~
Traditional English Folk Song
I have loved flowers that fade
within whose magic tents
rich hues have marriages made
with sweet unmemorized scents
a honeymoon delight
a joy of love at sight
that ages in an hour
my song, - be like a flower !
~
Robert Bridges
Marigold, Basil, Thyme & Yarrow
my spell is cast for a better tomorrow.
~
The Kitchen Witch's Creed
Let's go to the house
for the linen looks white
and smells of lavender
and I long to lie in a pair of sheets that smells so...
~
Izaak Walton