Posy Quotes

A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?

Robert Browning

— Book I : The Ring and the Book.

I made a posy while the day ran by; Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, * And wither'd in my hand.

George Herbert

— George Herbert, The Temple, Life.

Tags: while, day, ran, Here, smell, remnant, tie, life, within

(...) From the grove comes The whole company, carrying all variously, caskets, Kerchiefs knotted at corners, or small wicker baskets Full of mushrooms; young ladies displayed in one hand The imposing boletus , a well-folded fan, In the other hand, tied like a field-flower posy, Carried tree-and-mulch mushrooms, brown, ochre, and rosy.

— Book Three, Flirtations

Tags: grove, whole, company, carrying, variously, caskets, knotted, corners, small

Alone until she dies, Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.

dylan thomas

— Under MilkWood (1954)

Tags: Alone, hired, help, born, workhouse, smelling, cowshed, snores, bass

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