Crossword-Solution: TARES 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Have I done with those childish fancies? They suited the days gone by, When I pulled the poppies and pansies, When I hunted the butterfly, With one who has long been sleeping, A stranger to doubts and cares, And to sowing that ends in reaping Thistles, and thorns, and tares.

You are only starting out On life's roadways, hedged about Thick with roses and with tares, Sweet delights and bitter cares.

The man has lived to serve me, to spread black looks under colour of religion, or to sow tares in the wheat-field, as you do, in a course of weak compliance with desire.

Perhaps Robert’s originally tender heart was what made the difference; or, perhaps, his solitary and pleasant labour among fruits and flowers had taught him a more sunshiny creed than those whose work is among the tares of fallen humanity; and the soft influences of the garden had entered deep into his spirit, “Annihilating all that’s made To a green thought in a green shade.” But I could go on for ever chronicling his golden sayings or telling of his innocent and living piety.

Chrysostom says: "What can be more unreasonable than to sow without land, without rain, without ploughs? All those who give themselves up to this damnable culture shall reap only tares.