Alexander Pope Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Summer, Goodbye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

• Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  'Pastorals' (1709) 'Summer' l. 73

• Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
  Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
  For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
  Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Pride, Shining

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.5

• Truth needs not flowers of speech.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Flower, Needs

• The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Gone, Fruit

• All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

  Alexander Pope

  Rain, Flower, Sky

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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