Lilies Quotes

“Manibus date lilia plenis.”

“For her, the lilies hang their heads and die.”

“How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily.”

“Lily”

“The lily is all in white, like a saint,
And so is no mate for me.”

“lily”

“Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew
Shut in a lily's golden core.”

“* * * Purple lilies Dante blew
To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.”

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”

“And lilies are still lilies, pulled
By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.”

“Like the lily,
That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd,
I'll hang my head and perish.”

“And lilies white, prepared to touch
The whitest thought, nor soil it much,
Of dreamer turned to lover.”

“We are Lilies fair,
The flower of virgin light;
Nature held us forth, and said,
"Lo! my thoughts of white."”

“Is not this lily pure?
What fuller can procure
A white so perfect, spotless clear
As in this flower doth appear?”

“I wish I were the lily's leaf
To fade upon that bosom warm,
Content to wither, pale and brief,
The trophy of thy paler form.”

“But who will watch my lilies,
When their blossoms open white?
By day the sun shall be sentry,
And the moon and the stars by night!”

“Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power
Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour,
Than yours, ye Lilies! chosen thus and graced!”

“O lovely lily clean,
O lily springing green,
O lily bursting white,
Dear lily of delight,
Spring in my heart agen
That I may flower to men.”

“Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales,
The lily wraps her silver vest,
Till vernal suns and vernal gales
Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.”

“"Look to the lilies how they grow!"
'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we,
Even in the simplest flowers that blow,
God's ever-watchful care might see.”