Fields Quote by William Shakespeare

“I have been thinking about living like the lilies that blow in the fields. They rise and fall in the wedge of the wind,…

— Mary Oliver

“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed, And I am…

— William Blake

“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to…

— Edith Wharton

The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

— Nathalia Crane

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with…

— Honoré de Balzac

“A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down came April…

— Walter de la Mare

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

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

— John Keats

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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

— Charlotte Bronte