"Weeds" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are born of humble weeds, That faint and perish in the pathless wood; And out of bitter life grow noble deeds To ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... day some of us met at the parsonage to take a survey. Last year the house was without a tenant, and it had come to be in rather a dilapidated condition. The fence gate was off the hinges. The garden was over-grown with weeds. The sink in the kitchen was badly rotted. One of the parlor blinds was off. There was a bad leak over the back porch, and the plastering looked just ready to fall, and the whole looked ...
— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott
... snapped Kano. "She stands among rocks and weeds, and looks marvellously like——" He broke off, thinking it better not to mention his daughter's name. "But I ...
— The Dragon Painter • Mary McNeil Fenollosa
... various fowls are crown'd. Tobacco is the worst of things, which they To English landlords, as their tribute, pay. 30 Such is the mould, that the bless'd tenant feeds On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. With candied plantains, and the juicy pine, On choicest melons, and sweet grapes, they dine, And with potatoes fat their wanton swine. Nature these cates with such a lavish hand Pours out among them, that our coarser land Tastes of that bounty, and does cloth return, Which not for warmth, but ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham
... most true That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerfull haunt of men, and herds, And sits as safe as in a Senat house, For who would rob a Hermit of his Weeds, 390 His few Books, or his Beads, or Maple Dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence? But beauty like the fair Hesperian Tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with uninchanted eye, To save her blossoms, ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
|
