quote violets

"Violets dim yet sweeter than the lids of
Juno's eyes or Cytherea's breathe..."
from A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

quote violets

"I come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountains with light and song!
Ye may trace my steps o'er the wakening eart,
By the winds that tell of the violets' birth..."
- Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Quoted by Edith Holden in The Country Diary Birthday Book

quote primroses violets

"Long as there's a sun that sets
Primroses will have their glory
Long as there are violets
They will have a place in story..."
- William Wordsworth

quote violets

"As violets recluse and sweet,
Cheerful as daisies unaccounted rare;
Still sunward gazing from a lowly seat,
Still sweetening wintry air."
- Christina Rossetti