HYACINTH

Related Subject: Flowers

1. The hyacinth's for constancy wi' its unchanging blue.—BURNS, The Posie

2. Here hyacinths of heavenly blue
   Shook their rich tresses to the morn.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, The Adventure of a Star
   

3. If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
   And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
   Sell one, and with the dole
   Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.—SAADI, Gulistan
   

4. And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue,
   Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew
   Of music so delicate, soft, and intense,
   It was felt like an odo'br within the sense.—SHELLEY, The Sensitive Plant