Water-lily

The sale's other major work, Claude Monet's mottled "Water-lily Pond" from 1917, sold for $24.7 million, just over its $20 million low estimate.

Sotheby's Sells $68.9 Million Modigliani Kelly Crow 2010

To a Water-lily is generally admitted to be one of the most exquisite and perfect lyrics MacDowell ever composed for the pianoforte.

Edward MacDowell Porte, John F 1922

Rose-mallow, which reminds us of the Hollyhocks of our Grandmother's garden, Pickerel-weed, Water-lily, and Marsh Marigold.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

As a fair exemplification of his practice, consider, let me say, his "To a Water-lily," from the

Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

With the exception of "To a Water-lily," whose quality is uncomplex and unconcealed, these tone-poems in little are a curious blend of what, lacking an apter name, one must call nature-poetry, and psychological suggestion; and they are remarkable for the manner in which they focus great richness of emotion into limited space.

Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

As a fair exemplification of his practice, consider, let me say, his “To a Water-lily,” from the “Woodland Sketches.”

Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

“To a Water-lily,” whose quality is uncomplex and unconcealed, these tone-poems in little are a curious blend of what, lacking an apter name, one must call nature-poetry, and psychological suggestion; and they are remarkable for the manner in which they focus great richness of emotion into limited space.

Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

Because the Yellow Water-lily has the misfortune to claim relationship with the sweet-scented white species must it never receive its just meed of praise?

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Ye have seen my child -- the Water-lily, as ye call her -- grow year by year, from tenderest infancy to tender childhood, and from childhood on towards maidenhood.

Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

In the midst of them I saw the white ass, and on it sat the Water-lily [Flossie].

Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890