O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,
Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).John Milton
A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.William Wordsworth
A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.Richard Henry Horne
If time is a fading dream
Then it would be like a flower
Even if destined to fall
It would be all the more valuable in its transience.Ayumi Hamasaki
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard
Beauty is a fading flower,
Truth is but a wizard's tower,
Where a solemn death-bell tolls,
And a forest round it rolls.Alfred Noyes
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