Eyes that droop like summer flowers. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Ye flowers that droop forsaken by the spring;
Ye birds that left by summer cease to sing;
Yet trees that fade when autumn heats remove.
Say, is not absence death to those who love? [ Pope ]

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song. [ Wordsworth ]

Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier droop their boughs. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. [ Dr. Guthrie ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]