Bleeding Quote by Donald Justice

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

— John Keats

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be,…

— William Shakespeare

The roses have wilted, The violets are dead, Sugar is lumpy And so is your head.

— Anonymous

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's…

— Thomas Nashe

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

— James Russell Lowell

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the…

— Walter Scott

Roses are red violets are blue the light is bright but what happen to you

— Destinee

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And…

— William Shakespeare

Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?

— Anonymous

The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the…

— William Cowper