Gabriel Quote by Grace James

“The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies…

— Carroll Bryant

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Lily lay back in Jake's arms looking at the timbered roof overhead, planks and beams smooth and worn, antiqued by a century of summers.”

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

— Anne Sexton

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And…

— A. E. Housman

An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger.…

— Allen Lacy

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

— Robert Browning

“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted with pale…

— Sarah Bower

All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And…

— George Crabbe

“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part…

— Walt Whitman

On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk…

— John Townsend Trowbridge

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of…

— Ben Jonson