Gray hairs are death's blossoms. [ Schiller ]
What is glory? what is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name;
A breath, an idle hour's brief talk;
The shadow of an arrant naught;
A flower that blossoms for a day.
Dying next morrow;
A stream that hurries on its way.
Singing of sorrow. [ Motherwell ]
Vain-glory blossoms, but never bears. [ Proverb ]
Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin. [ William Shakespeare ]
No autumn fruit without spring blossoms. [ Proverb ]
A snow of blossoms, and a wild of flowers. [ Tickell ]
The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining.
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,
Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
Buds that open only to decay. [ Longfellow ]
Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem. [ Hafiz ]
In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. [ Auson. of the rose ]
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man. [ Jean Paul ]
The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful. [ Richter ]
Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die. [ Kirke White ]
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. [ Socrates ]
Pearly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. [ H. K. White ]
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. [ L'Estrange ]
Thus came the lovely spring, with a rush of blossoms and music, flooding the earth with flowers and the air with melodies vernal. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. [ Beecher ]
In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem
in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]