Posy Quotes

A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?

Robert Browning

— Book I : The Ring and the Book.

Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, Wreaths for the Ministers.

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.

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(...) 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

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