"Gillyflower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... red, the violet blue, The gillyflower sweet — and so are you. These are the words you bade me say For a pair of ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies - Without Addition or Abridgement • Munroe and Francis
... "Dear Gillyflower!" she said. "I'm so glad you feel like that—bless you! I wish I could. But I never shall. I was soured in the making, I think"—laughing rather forlornly. "I don't trust love. It's the thing that hurts and tortures and breaks a woman—as my mother ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... stone and waved his wand over the fire. There was a flare of red flames, the snow disappeared, but the fading leaves which trembled on the trees were sent by a cold north-east wind in yellow masses to the glade. Only a few flowers of autumn were visible, such as the fleabane and red gillyflower, autumn colchicums in the ravine, and under the beeches bracken and tufts of northern heather. At first Marouckla looked in vain for red apples. Then she espied a tree which grew at a great height, and from the branches of this hung the bright ...
— Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen • Alexander Chodsko |
