Bloom quotes

So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: 'The bloom isgone, and with the bloom go I.'

- Matthew Arnold
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.57^60.

Charm†it's a sort of a bloom on a woman.If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
  What Every  Woman Knows (published1918), act1.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment whitethen melts for ever.

- Robert Burns
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu'o'care!

- Robert Burns
  'The Banks o' Doon' (2nd version), stanza1.

To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.

-William Collins
  'Dirge in Cymbeline'.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

-Constantinus
  The Arrow of Gold, author's note. AD Roman Emperor, who adoptedChristianity c.312 AD. He founded a  royal  residence  at  Byzantium  (Constantinople),  an  act  of great historical importance.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.2.

And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.2.

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, of human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.40^50.

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

-Thomas Moore
  Irish Melodies,'The Meeting of the Waters'.

Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.

- Dudley Randall
  Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind. It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies. This trivial trope reveals a way of truth. Our bloom isgone.We are the fruit thereof.

-Wallace Stevens
  Harmonium,'Le Monocle de Mon Oncle', pt.8.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

- (Philip) Edward Thomas
  'Tall Nettles'.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloomisgone.Thewholetheoryof moderneducationis radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Lady Bracknell.The Importance of Being Earnest, act1.