VIOLET

Related Subject: Flowers

1. Those veiled nuns, meek violets.—THOMAS HOOD, The Plea of the Midsummer
   Fairies
   

2. Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.—THOMAS MOORE, Lalla Rookh
   

3. You pretty daughters of the Earth and Sun.—SIR WALTER RALEIGH, The Shepherd to the Flowers
   

4. A violet in the youth of primy nature,
   Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
   The perfume and suppliance of a minute.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

5. Lay her i' the earth:
   And from her fair and unpolluted flesh,
   May violets spring!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

6. Who are the violets now
   That strew the green lap of the new come spring?—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II

7. Violets dim,
   But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
   Or Cytherea's breath.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
   

8. A violet, by a mossy stone
   Half hidden from the eye!
   Fair as a star, when only one
   Is shining in the sky.—WORDSWORTH, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways