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source: James Montgomery (1860). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: In Six Volumes. Greenland ; Miscellaneous poems ; Narratives ; Translations from Dante”, p.225

topic: Tresses, Hyacinths

China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets â€“ that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

- Constance Spry

source: Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

topic: Fire, Tea, Afternoon, Hyacinths

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

- Eudora Welty

topic: People, Onions, Layers, Hyacinths

As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.

- Mark Nepo

source: FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Apr 05, 2012

topic: Hurt, Heart, Orchids, Hyacinths

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Song: Take This Waltz, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

topic: Music, Yield, Rivers, Hyacinths

We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Change, Girl, Violet, Hyacinths

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

- Alice Morse Earle

source: Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

topic: Spring, Flower, Garden, Spring Flowers, Hyacinths

Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

- Donna Tartt

topic: Girl, Boys, Hair, Lovely Girl, Hyacinths

And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.

- Rick Elice

topic: Dog, Giving Up, Thinking, Hyacinths

Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Mother, Expression, Voice, Grinning, Disapproving

The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

- James Lee

topic: Spring, Air, Water, Bayou, Cypresses

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.

- Julia Quinn

source: Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

topic: Years, Twelve, Months, Hyacinths

But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Nice, Kissing, Thinking, Hyacinths, Should Have Known

Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Real, Father, Reflection, Loud Noises, Wince

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.

- Julia Quinn

source: Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

topic: Children, Men, Tears, Hyacinths, Youngest Child

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

- John Milton

topic: Men, Rose, Bird, Irises, Crocuses

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)

topic: Beauty, Home, Hair, Helen, Hyacinths

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

- Julia Quinn

source: Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

topic: Mother, Love You, Violet, Solicitude, Hyacinths

Don’t look so upset,” Hyacinth said, once it was just the two of them again. “You’re quite a catch.” He looked at her assessingly. “Is one meant to say such things quite so directly?” She shrugged. “Not to men one is trying to impress.” “Touché, Miss Bridgerton.” She sighed happily. “My three favorite words.” Of that, he had no doubt.

- Julia Quinn

source: Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

topic: Men, Favorite Words, Two, Hyacinths

I’m trying to embroider.” Hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “You’re trying to avoid—” Her mother stopped, blinking. “I say, why does that flower have an ear?” “It’s not an ear.” Hyacinth looked down. “And it’s not a flower.” “Wasn’t it a flower yesterday?” “I have a very creative mind,” Hyacinth ground out, giving the blasted flower another ear. “That,” Violet said, “has never been in any doubt.” Hyacinth looked down at the mess on the fabric. “It’s a tabby cat,” she announced. “I just need to give it a tail.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Mother, Flower, Cat, Handiwork, Hyacinths

Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that score,” Gregory said with a bland smile. “The real question is—will you be safe with her?” It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Brother, Real, Giving, Hyacinths, No Worries

I‟m going to kill her,” Francesca said to no one in particular. Which was probably a good thing, as there was no one else present. “Who are you talking to?” Hyacinth demanded. “God,” Francesca said baldly. “And I do believe I have been given divine leave to murder you.” “Hmmph,” was Hyacinth‟s response. “If it was that easy, I‟d have asked permission to eliminate half the ton years ago.” Francesca decided just then that not all of Hyacinth‟s statements required a rejoinder. In fact, few of them did.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Believe, Talking, Years, Hyacinths

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