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    We are violets blue,
    For our sweetness found
    Careless in the mossy shades,
    Looking on the ground.
    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--
    Such our breath and blueness is.
    - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),

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The violet is a nun.

The violet is a nun.

by Thomas Hood Found in: Violets Quotes,
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The modest, lowly violet
In leaves of tender green is set;
So rich she cannot hide from read more

The modest, lowly violet
In leaves of tender green is set;
So rich she cannot hide from view,
But covers all the bank with blue.

by Dora Read Goodale Found in: Violets Quotes,
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A blossom of returning light,
An April flower of sun and dew;
The earth and sky, the read more

A blossom of returning light,
An April flower of sun and dew;
The earth and sky, the day and night
Are melted in her depth of blue!

by Dora Read Goodale Found in: Violets Quotes,
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The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye,
To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.

The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye,
To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.

by Frances S. Osgood Found in: Violets Quotes,
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The violets were past their prime,
Yet their departing breath
Was sweeter, in the blast of death,
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The violets were past their prime,
Yet their departing breath
Was sweeter, in the blast of death,
Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.

by James Montgomery Found in: Violets Quotes,
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Early violets blue and white
Dying for their love of light.

Early violets blue and white
Dying for their love of light.

by Edwin Arnold Found in: Violets Quotes,
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Stars will blossom in the darkness,
Violets bloom beneath the snow.

Stars will blossom in the darkness,
Violets bloom beneath the snow.

by Julia C.r. Dorr Found in: Violets Quotes,
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The violets prattle and titter,
And gaze on the stars high above.

The violets prattle and titter,
And gaze on the stars high above.

by Heinrich Heine Found in: Violets Quotes,
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Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?

Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?

by William Shakespeare Found in: Violets Quotes,
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