"You believe In God, for your part?—ay? that He who makes, Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As m…"

"We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. Th…"

"Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, Bending beneath the invisible west-wind's sighs."

"And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty's secret nearer."

"The tulip is a courtly quean, Whom, therefore, I will shun."

"Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here in…"

"Dutch tulips from their beds Flaunted their stately heads."

"Not one of Flora's brilliant race A form more perfect can display; Art could not feign more simple grace Nor Nature t…"

"The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike."

"When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the mead…"