"Snowdrop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may note, amid the dearth, The crocus breaking earth; And near the snowdrop's tender white and green, The violet ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various
... perchance, Blooms as his cognizance: The snowdrop chill, The violet unbeholden, For some: for you ...
— Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc - From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... closets and shelves out of packing boxes, and generally eking out the interior arrangements with a sailor's ready ingenuity. Outside there was a barnyard, and a two-story hencoop to be put to rights, with its brood of pet chickens each with its name,—Snowdrop, Crown Imperial, Queenie, Fawn, and the like decorative appellations. The two children, Una and Julian, were in a paradise. Other friends came, too, to visit or to call. Mrs. Hawthorne soon remarked that they ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry
... blue-stocking in her time; Mrs. Hemans; pretty, charming 'Perdita,' who flirted alternately with poetry and the Prince Regent, played divinely in the Winter's Tale, was brutally attacked by Gifford, and has left us a pathetic little poem on the Snowdrop; and Emily Bronte, whose poems are instinct with tragic power, and seem often on the ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... a moment, please," said Toinette, and she rested her chin upon her hands, a favorite attitude of hers when thinking seriously of anything. "How would a lily, a violet, a pansy, a daffodil, a narcissus, and a snowdrop do?" ...
— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson
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