Longfellow and Tennyson:
"And like a lily on a river floating,
She floats upon the river of his thoughts."
_Spanish Student_, Act II. Sc. 3.
"Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake;
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me."
_Princess_, Part vii.
Wordsworth and Keble:
"A book, upon whose leaves some chosen plants
By his own hand disposed with nicest care,
In undecaying beauty were preserved;--
Mute register, to him, of time and place,
And various fluctuations in the breast;
To her, a monument of faithful love
Conquered, and in tranquillity retained!"
_Excursion_, Book vi.
"Like flower-leaves in a precious volume stor'd,
To solace and relieve
Some heart too weary of the restless world."
_Christian Year_: Prayers to be used at Sea.
Moore and Keble:
"Now by those stars that glance
O'er Heaven's still expanse
Weave we our mirthful dance,
Daughters of Zea!"
_Evenings in Greece._
"Beneath the moonlight sky,
The festal warblings flow'd,
Where maidens to the Queen of Heaven
Wove the gay dance."
_Christian Year_: Eighth Sunday after Trinity.