poppies quotes

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'.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

-John McCrae
  'In Flanders Fields', stanza1.