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“The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.”

Losing Green Rough Weed Idleness Utility Hateful Docks Clovers Mead Thistles Scythes Burrs

Author:William Shakespeare

“The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.”

Wind Forgotten Awake Deceiving Heed Clovers Same Love

Author:John Vance Cheney

“To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.”

World White Sweet Flower Plant Very Good Honey Bees Orange Clovers

Author:Chip Taylor

“The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.”

Heart Lying Honey Sweetness Usefulness Clovers Sweetness Of Life

Book:Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -”

Bees Prairie Hives Clovers Busy Bee Pollination

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!”

Labor Experience Tunes Bees Insects Idleness Noon Clovers

Author:Emily Dickinson

“What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.”

Air Sweet Smell Clovers Dell

Book:The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.”

May Littles Long Waiting Four Fields Luck Little Things Hunts Good Luck Hay Clovers

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.”

Love Soul Sometimes Heaven Sin Love Is Hell Sweet Bitter Cells Gates Honey Clovers Dregs Passwords

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.”

Losing Rough Utility Hateful Docks Clovers Thistles

Author:William Shakespeare

“Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.”

Believe Four Worst Lucky Luck Stealing Leafs Unlucky Clovers No Such Thing As Luck Four Leaf Clover

Book:With a Little Luck: A Novel

Source: With a Little Luck: A Novel

“I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on.”

Looks Dream Night Stars Crosses Fingers Shooting Coins Fountain Lawns Toss Clovers Shooting Star

Author:Tracy Chapman

“The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.”

Giving Christian Fall Church Atheism Rain Miracle Positive Atheism Monsters Impression Christian Church Clovers

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures

“A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.”

Left Hours Sleep Silence Doors Dog Fields Listening Stones Safety Stealing Gray Shade Bites Reign Crops Dwelling Steers Sabbath Laborers Paws Dens Juicy Clovers

Author:William C. Bryant

“There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.”

Left Heaven Despair Rain Dew Daisies Clovers

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.”

Should Book Path Doors Fields Rose Breathe Brown Sunshine Twilight Feathers Violet Pipe Lanes Lovable Nightingales Clovers Blackbirds Stiles Most Lovable

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.”

Young Lines Fashion Brands Peter Discovering Canyons Clovers

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.”

Lord Feet Sweet Crowds Bees Skip Larks Giddy Clovers Grasshoppers Hang Over

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“The revery alone will do If bees are few.”

Ifs Dream Bees Prairie Hives Clovers Busy Bee Pollination

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.”

Ifs Persons Four Magic Crosses Green Fishes Come Up Grass Leafs Ants Plunge Fingernails Clovers Chilly Four Leaf Clover

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.”

Years Lasts Grows Spring Winter Abundance Pigs Barrels Peaches Clovers Herring

Book:Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie

“Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.”

Mind Young Girl Left White Bottom Lovely Grass Carpe Diem Barrels Rust Carpe Clovers

Book:In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007

Source: In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007

“The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.”

May Loss Casts Disaster Grass Hay Clovers

Author:Louise Imogen Guiney

“On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.”

World Ends Circles Bees Fisherman Clovers

Book:Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

Source: Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

“No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.”

Way Born Speed Controlled Cop Leafs Sucker Freeways High Speed Clovers Interchange

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.”

Years Book Light Pages Leather Stains Great Book Bleach Clovers

Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.”

World War Dark Walks Dying Danger Moon Winter Flying Snow Sowing Clovers

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.”

White Fields Temporary Weed Crops Straws Flooding Clovers

Book:The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Source: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”

Should Believe Dream Together Left I Believe Sleep Flower Lovers Bed Clovers Entwined

Author:Conor Oberst

“Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing”

“Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone.”

Ifs Mean Said Ends Able Worry Sticks Candy Trust Me Clovers

Author:Obert Skye

“I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.”

“Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.”

Stars Air Fields Wind Spring Rivers Breaths Invisible Rising Valleys Twilight Flew Ponds Clovers

Book:A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Source: A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

“Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared at one another and then, as if they were destined to, thay began to lean into one another, Leven closed his eyes. "What are you doing?" Geth asked concerned. Winter closed his eyes too and leaned close. Both of them looked panicked and out of control, but it didn't stop them from moving closer and kissing each other. Clover's jaw dropped and he pulled something out of his void just so he could let go of it in shock.”

Ifs Two Eye Moving Letting Go Kissing Red Concerned Green Winter His Eyes Shock Void Cheeks Burned Destined Green Eyes Clovers Moving Closer

Author:Obert Skye

“One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.”

Said Winter Hungry Clovers Scolded

Author:Obert Skye

“What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.”

Said Eye Percent Concerned Winter Hungry Thirty His Eyes Seventies Crisps Mischievous Clovers Fillers

Author:Obert Skye

“[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.”

Wells Looks Children Facts Parent Saws Nice Food Baby Couple Creatures Surprise Hungry Delightful Soothing Living Creatures New Baby Furry Clovers

Author:Obert Skye

“When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.”

“The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.”

May Persons Has Beens Sometimes Fall Winning Answers Known Heard Middle Holes Tennis Bees Starting Over Riddle Clovers

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”

Doe Animal Food Spring Concern Garden Pet Honey Bees Insects Spiders Dessert Aristocracy Pedigree Clovers Honey Bee Bees And Honey

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.”

Middle Figures Fourth Stout Clovers Mares Motherly Foals

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.”

Ifs Men World Wells Heart Said Forget Flower Suits Grass Dry Tall Farewell Halt Dead Man Lad Headstone Forget Me Clovers I Liked You

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”

Ifs Men Philosophy Four Lucky Gambling Ireland Leafs Bad Luck Ireland And The Irish Clovers Lucky Day Four Leaf Clover

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked. "It's not good." Clover said. "Then what is it?" 'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge. "I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.”

Said Levels Darkness Opposites Frustrated Impressed Clovers

Author:Obert Skye

“Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.”

Lasts Listening Speech Majors Cat Rounds Usual Boxers Clovers

Book:George Orwell's Animal Farm

Source: George Orwell's Animal Farm

“I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.”

People Said Found Causes Four Car Keys Beer Jealous Leafs Pennies Ravens Gansey Sluggish Clovers Car Keys Four Leaf Clover

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.”

Children Remember Clouds Hills Tall Oaks Lilies Remember You Remembers You Remember Me Brushing Granite Clovers

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.”

World Life White Blood Wide Bees Closing Vines Gypsy Moths Clovers

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.”

People Reason Life Is Opportunity Four Achievement Leafs Backyards Opportunity Knocks Clovers Opportunity Knocking Four Leaf Clover

Author:Walter Chrysler