Clovers Quotes - Page 2

• His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

  Emily Dickinson

  Experience, Tunes, Noon

  Emily Dickinson, “Like Trains Of Cars On Tracks Of Plush”

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• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Sweet, Cells

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

  Obert Skye

  Eye, Winter, Hungry

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• Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

  John Denver

  Sweet, Song, Spring

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• On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Circles, World, Bees

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• The peace of great books be for you,
  Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
  Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Light, Years

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Air, Smell

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1861). “The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.270

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

  John Vance Cheney

  Wind, Forgotten, Deceiving

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• April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

  Robert Loveman, “April Rain”

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• The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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• Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Peace, Flower

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• The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Fall, Winning, Starting Over

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• If you meet a cross-eyed person
  you must plunge into the grass,
  alongside the chilly ants,
  fish through the green fingernails
  and come up with the four-leaf clover.

  Anne Sexton

  Magic, Four, Green

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

  George Orwell

  Cat, Listening, Usual

  David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.28, Barron's Educational Series

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• The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Green, Docks

  'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

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• Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
  A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
  The spring begins before the winter's over.

  Elinor Wylie

  Spring, Winter, Pigs

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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• I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fashion, Lines, Canyons

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• You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 'Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?

  Haruki Murakami

  Sweet, Spring, Nice

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• When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nice, Eye, Cutting

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• No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Way, Cop, Speed

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• You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.

  Obert Skye

  Winter, Hungry, Said

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• [Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.

  Obert Skye

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.

  Wendell Berry

  Moving, Healing, Home

  Wendell Berry (2012). “A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural”, p.43, Counterpoint Press

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