flower of life
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Look at the flower of life as one such metaphor.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014
After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether�nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maggie said that love was the flower of life, and blossomed unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it was found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Phantom of beauty! with his trepid locks Gleaming like water-wreaths,—a flower of life, To whom the fairy world is fresh, the sky A glory, and the earth one huge delight!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 by Various
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.
From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith
