Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant
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Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
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Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies alas! How soon he dies!
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Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
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Radiant Day is slowly fading; and the evening calm and still. Gazing through the oak and willow; stoop to kiss the ancient mill. Listen to the damsel dancing; to the jig of feed and flower. And the water wheel revolving; with the dashing constant p
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Just as a prism of glass miters light and casts a colored braid, a garden sings sweet incantations the human heart strains to hear. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden.
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Just living is not enough.. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason.
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed.. If we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
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We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also if you love them enough.
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
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To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.
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Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
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Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.
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Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.
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Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us.
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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
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Nobody sees a flower really it is so small it takes time we haven't time and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying; And this same flower that smiles to day, To morrow will be dying.
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
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