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“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”

Hard Faces Grows White Red Garden Rose Blow East Pale Vow Pardon Fright Maidens Rose Garden Red Rose White Rose Snowdrops

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!”

Years Forget Grace Spring Snow Modest Fleeting Chaste Harbinger Pensive Snowdrops

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.”

Winter Teeth Fragile Celebration Hardy Hardiness Snowdrops

Book:What Happens in My Garden

Source: What Happens in My Garden

“The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.”

Flower Wet Violet Woodland Snowdrops

Author:Robert Burns

“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.”

Source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology

“I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring.”

Ifs Feels Stills Dream Wonder Sun Doubt Fire Spring Bird March Mates Frozen Springtime Stirring Robins Sap Kindling Crocuses Snowdrops

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.”

Ifs May Care Blood Flower Bed Spring Strive Thrive Gestures Strife Violet Bud Glowing Flare Emeralds Crocuses Snowdrops

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Florida, it's strawberry season- shortcake, waffles, berries and cream will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.”

Might Air Late Spring Seasons Inevitable Cream Florida Yards Fooled Berries February Menus Strawberries Blooming Blizzard Undercover Waffles Harbinger Crocuses Snowdrops

Book:The Common

Source: The Common

“It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms in an eternal springtime; that the snowdrop has in our hearts a triple birth, and blooms in three separate minds, faultlessly... So that if all the flowers and grasses and hollows and hills of the old house were razed and mutilated - as they are now, I suppose - we keep them intact in three minds, each depending on the other to supply it with the delicate minutiae of remembrance.”

Ifs Knows Mind Heart May Art Stills Home Three House Heaven Women Sweet Flower Birth Eternal Hills Grass Delicate Remembrance Fence Springtime Old Houses Minutiae Snowdrops

Author:Eve Langley

“She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.”

Behinds Tree Bird Garden Window Ears Green Invisible Innocent Islands Isolated Bedroom Incidents Silk Drones Snowdrops

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf