"Unwithered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but which is remarkable for its multitudinous crimson flowers, so seductive to the humming-birds that they hover about it all day long, burying themselves in its blossoms until petal and wing seem one. At first upright, a little later the gorgeous bells droop downward and fall to the ground unwithered, being poetically called Cupid's tears. Flowers abound here which are only known to us in our hothouses, whose brilliant colors, like those of the cactus, scarlet, yellow, and blue, are quite in harmony with the surroundings, where everything is ...
— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou
... head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various |
