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Pity and surety and peace most lowly Were the root and the stem and the bloom of the flower: And the light and the breath of the buds kept holy That maid’s else blossomless bower.

From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

What did it matter to them that the garden was neglected, the grass rank and uncut, the currant-bushes barren from neglect, the lilacs old and blossomless?

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

But the wild asters and the long convolvulus vines were choking the blossomless pinks and the sweet-williams and the few shy English flowers that were left.

From Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests by Pickthall, Marjorie L. C.

The Friendship which Wawatam testified for Henry the fur-trader, as described in the latter's "Adventures," so almost bare and leafless, yet not blossomless nor fruitless, is remembered with satisfaction and security.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David

He, later, wandering round the flowers Paused awhile by the blossomless tree.

From India's Love Lyrics by Hope, Laurence