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Literary Period:
"Nineteenth Century"
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Work title:
"Poem"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1810
"And these young ruffians in the soul will sow / Seeds of all vices that on weakness grow."
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1817
"'--O let not Sloth depress to earth / 'Those early blossoms in their birth, / 'Which to your ripening mind is given, / 'To bloom through time, then rise to heaven!"
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
With "attentive hand" the "Luxuriance" of one's nature may be pruned so that branches will bear fruit
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1817
"The seeds, in earliest Childhood sown / As buds, will in the Boy be known: / In Youth, as blossoms will appear, / And in full Manhood, fruitage bear."
preview | full record— Combe, William (1742 -1823)
Date: 1862
"O may not gold, according to its kind, / Twist round your heart, and grow upon your mind!"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, the Younger (1691-1739)
Date: April 26 1870
"Like a rose shut in a book / In which pure women may not look, / For its base pages claim control / To crush the flower within the soul."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
