Bees Quote by Robert Burns

“The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight? Lightning, that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,…

— John Milton

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

— Anthony S. Maulucci

I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity,…

— John of the Cross

“And her heart sprang in Iseult, and she drew With all her spirit and life the sunrise through And through her lips the keen…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“There is a flower that Bees prefer— And Butterflies—desire— To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming Bird—aspire— And Whatsoever Insect pass— A Honey bear…

— Emily Dickinson

“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The…

— William Wordsworth

“Twas noontide of summer, And mid-time of night; And stars, in their orbits, Shone pale, thro' the light Of the brighter, cold moon, 'Mid…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“THOU wast all that to me, love, For which my soul did pine: A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a…

— Anonymous

“Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for…

— Alice Poon