1.
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
John Keats
The swaying poppies yielded A gentle zephyr, serenading my spirit.
2.
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
Bayard Taylor
Far and wide, in a crimson wave, The poppy's blaze extended.
3.
I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.
Marilyn Buck
4.
But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower
John Bunyan
5.
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
Robert Burns
7.
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Travis Barker
9.
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
John McCrae
10.
Or, bide thou where the poppy blows
With windflowers fail and fair.
William C. Bryant
11.
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.
Edward Hopper
12.
Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
Hope Mirrlees
13.
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
John Keats
14.
I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
Jon Bon Jovi
15.
They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
Czeslaw Milosz
16.
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Jonathan Swift
17.
I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.
Ty Segall
18.
his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
Samantha Shannon
19.
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
Thomas Hood
20.
I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!
Grimes
21.
Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.
Jennifer Egan
22.
The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
David Swing