Anguish Quote by John Keats

A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Beyond these the flowers were more frequent, but paler, less glossy, more thickly seeded, more tightly folded, and disposed, by accident, in festoons so…

— Marcel Proust

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

— Christina Rossetti

The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

— Thomas Campion

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its…

— Julia Caroline Dorr

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

— William Shakespeare

The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing…

— William Shakespeare

I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to…

— William Morris