starry-flowered

Updated: May 29, 2025

But even with the hired plough, I am taking part in the making of spring; and more: I am planting me again as a tree, a bush, a mat of chickweed, lowly, tiny, starry-flowered chickweed, in the earth, whence, so long ago it sometimes seems, I was pulled up. But the ploughing does more more than root me as a weed. Ploughing is walking not by sight.

Dallas Lore Sharp - The Hills of Hingham

Simon, rose the faint blue outline of Giaour Dagh, whose mural chain divides Syria from the plains of Cilicia. As the twilight deepened over the scene, there came a long, melodious cry of passion and of sorrow from the heart of a starry-flowered pomegranate tree in the garden. Other voices answered it from the gardens around, until not one, but fifty nightingales charmed the repose of the hour.

Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain