Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]

Feather by feather, the goose is plucked. [ Proverb ]

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;
Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two;
Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one. [ Young ]

Joy is an exchange.
Joy flies monopolies; it calls for two:
Rich fruit, heaven-planted, never plucked by one. [ Edward Young ]

Even, children followed with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. [ Goldsmith ]

For violets plucked, the sweetest showers will never make grow again. [ Byron ]

Cherish flowers; a flower plucked from its parent stock soon loses its beauty. [ Catullus ]

Then kissed me hard, as if he plucked up kisses by the roots, that grew upon my lips. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. [ Ouida ]

Die when I may, I want it said of me, by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow. [ Lincoln ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise - severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming - beautiful, but dead. [ C. Stanford ]