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“Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.”

Knows Heart Joy Sweet Flower Pure Lows Humble Stem Leafs Impart Sweet Flowers

Book:The Columbian lyre: or, Specimens of transatlantic poetry

Source: The Columbian lyre: or, Specimens of transatlantic poetry

“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.”

Has Beens Used Left Tree Streets Sweet Dust Dawn Touched Exposed Leafs

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.”

Knows Years Children Eye Young Sweet Spring Surprise Thee Leafs Violet Young Children

Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.”

May Past Fields Sweet Music Is Woods Suits Yearning Leafs New Life Frost Hush Free Love Past Away

Book:Idylls of the King

Source: Idylls of the King

“Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.”

Night Sweet Wind Rainbow Leafs Creeps

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.”

Two Running Night Rich Creation Tears Sweet Shoulders Ice Poetry Is Leafs Blades Cracked Peas Nightingales Sweet Peas

Author:Boris Pasternak