Posy Quotes 

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
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A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?

Robert Browning

— Book I : The Ring and the Book.

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

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, Wreaths for the Ministers.

Tags: Find, me, next, Type, harangues

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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

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

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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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