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Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

Cold blows the wind against the hill, And cold upon the plain; I sit me by the bank, until The violets come again.

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

A blossom of returning light, An April flower of sun and dew; The earth and sky, the day and night Are melted in her depth of blue!

The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set; So rich she cannot hide from view, But covers all the bank with blue.

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.

The violet is a nun.

We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. - Leigh Hunt ,

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.

Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth?

Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.