State flowers of Rhode Island, Illinois and New Jersey

Usage examples of violets.

Below, in the little valley, the resplendent colourations of the million flowers, roses, lilies, hyacinths, carnations, violets, glowed like incandescence in the golden light of the rising moon.

The effect was exquisite, the window a veritable masterpiece, glowing, flaming, and burning with a hundred tints and colours--opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black.

Carrados raised an accusing finger and pointed to the little bunch of violets with which the impressionable young man had adorned his button-hole.

Through the coarse meadow grasses wildflowers had forced their way: purple violets, bright yellow dandelions, delicate little .

She followed a path to the stream, finding unexpected treasures-a carpet of violets along a bank, a hollow filled with the pink blossoms, swaying on their delicate stems like a pool of rose-tinted water-and a rustic bench, rough but comfortable, at the edge of the stream.

The violets were gone, but their heartshaped leaves gave promise of another spring.

Well, April passed with many other evenings, Evenings like this, with later suns and warmer, With violets always there, and fragrant curtains .

PORCELAIN You see that porcelain ranged there in the window-- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, and wreaths of ivy?

There I sit, Twirling the tiny brushes in my paint-cups, Painting the pale pink rosebuds, minute violets, Exquisite wreaths of dark green ivy leaves.

Soon as I shut my eyes I set out walking In a monstrous jungle of monstrous pale pink roseleaves, Violets purple as death, dripping with water, And ivy-leaves as big as clouds above me.

I never strike out boldly as I used to-- But sit here, painting violets, and remember That thrilling night.

My life arranged before you In scrolls of leaves, rosebuds, violets, ivy, Clustered or wreathed on plate and cup and platter .

Then it passed forward beyond the violets, and drew nearer and stood amid the mignonette, hardier blooms that dared look heavenward from out the leaves.

Now it passed through the beds of violets, now through the mignonette.

He noticed that she had a large bunch of violets at her breast, a lot of fair hair, a short straight nose, and round blue-grey eyes very frank and open.