Poppies

      The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.
      Find me next a Poppy posy,
      Type of his harangues so dozy.
      The poppies hung
      Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

      Poppies are a group of a flowering plants, many of which are grown in gardens for their colorful flowers.

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      Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

      Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 613-614.
      • I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed!
        The flower of Mercy! that within its heart
        Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,
        A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.
        For happy hours the Rose will idly blow ,
        The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.
        • Mary A. Barr, White Poppies.
      • Central depth of purple,
        Leaves more bright than rose,
        Who shall tell what brightest thought
        Out of darkness grows?
        Who, through what funereal pain,
        Souls to love and peace attain?
        • Leigh Hunt, Songs and Chorus of the Flowers, Poppies.
      • We are slumberous poppies,
        Lords of Lethe downs,
        Some awake and some asleep,
        Sleeping in our crowns.
        What perchance our dreams may know,
        Let our serious beauty show.
        • Leigh Hunt, Songs and Chorus of the Flowers, Poppies.
      • The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams.
        • Scharmel Iris, Early Nightfall.
      • Through the dancing poppies stole
        A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.
      • The poppies hung
        Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
      • Every castle of the air
        Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there
        Are seeds for every romance, or light
        Whiff of a dream for a summer night.
      • Visions for those too tired to sleep,
        These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.
      • In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
        Between the crosses, row on row,
        That mark our place, and in the sky,
        The larks, still bravely singing, fly
        Scarce heard among the guns below.
        • Col. John McCrae, In Flander's Fields (We shall not Sleep.).
      • Find me next a Poppy posy,
        Type of his harangues so dozy.
      • And would it not be proud romance
        Falling in some obscure advance,
        To rise, a poppy field of France?
        • William A. Percy, Poppy Fields.
      • Let but my scarlet head appear
        And I am held in scorn;
        Yet juice of subtile virtue lies
        Within my cup of curious dyes.
      • Gentle sleep!
        Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above;
        And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless
        My senses with the sight of her I love.
      • And far and wide, in a scarlet tide,
        The poppy's bonfire spread.
        • Bayard Taylor, Poems of the Orient, The Poet in the East, Stanza 4.
      • Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
        And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
        Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
        And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
        With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank
        The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank,
        And clipped its cup in the purpurate shine
        When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
      • Bring poppies for a weary mind
        That saddens in a senseless din.
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