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“May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.”

May Growing Green Graves Grass Over You Green Grass Grass Growing

Author:Frank R. Stockton

“May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.”

Giving May Hours Flower Green Queens Charm Fulfilling Pipe Heed Reeds Mead May Day Spring May

Author:Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

“Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.”

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.”

May Grace Summer Fairs Green Woods Queens Garlands

Author:Walter Scott

“Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.”

Years May Safe Waste Sight Sacred Green Desert Islands Shelter Pauses Abode Isle

Book:The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]

Source: The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]

“O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.”

Men Heart May White Flower My Heart Spring Green Clean Dear Delight Lovely Lilies Bursting May Flowers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.”

People May Two Eye Color Blue Green Related Brown Gray Shade Blue Eyes Eye Color Blue And Green Shades Of Blue

Book:The Speed of Dark: A Novel

Source: The Speed of Dark: A Novel

“When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!”

Knows Giving May Walks Fire Our Lives Land Green Grass Locks Purple Brows Torches Meadows Garlands Punctual Attire May Day Spring May

Book:The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)

“Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History