The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry: To which are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral DictionaryFrances Sargent Osgood J. C. Riker, 1848 - 276 páginas |
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... blushing shut of day , Veiled in a chariot , heralded along By strewn flowers , torches , and a marriage song . KEATS . And at their banquets and festivals they crowned themselves with Garlands of every green , and every scent , From ...
... blushing shut of day , Veiled in a chariot , heralded along By strewn flowers , torches , and a marriage song . KEATS . And at their banquets and festivals they crowned themselves with Garlands of every green , and every scent , From ...
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... blush of the eglantine , - And the pure sweetness of the jessamine ; What is it those sighs confess ? 66 But we are extending this part beyond our limits . Flowers afford a certain means of determining the state of the atmo- sphere ...
... blush of the eglantine , - And the pure sweetness of the jessamine ; What is it those sighs confess ? 66 But we are extending this part beyond our limits . Flowers afford a certain means of determining the state of the atmo- sphere ...
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... blushing love in its earliest dawn And the mildness that suits the gentle dove , From the myrtle's snowy flower is drawn . Innocence dwells in the lily's bell , Pure as a heart in its native heaven ; Fame's bright star and glory's swell ...
... blushing love in its earliest dawn And the mildness that suits the gentle dove , From the myrtle's snowy flower is drawn . Innocence dwells in the lily's bell , Pure as a heart in its native heaven ; Fame's bright star and glory's swell ...
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... blushes the delicate pimpernel ; For a prophetess true is that lowly flower , She warns us ever of tempest hour , When the rain - cloud shadows her humble head , She folds her petals of brilliant red , And keeps her sunny heart warm ...
... blushes the delicate pimpernel ; For a prophetess true is that lowly flower , She warns us ever of tempest hour , When the rain - cloud shadows her humble head , She folds her petals of brilliant red , And keeps her sunny heart warm ...
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... blush , makes thy beauty so dear- As the sky we look up to , though glorious and fair , Is looked up to the more , because Heaven is there ! MOORE . As lightly floats the water - star , And gems the limpid stream , Thy graceful ...
... blush , makes thy beauty so dear- As the sky we look up to , though glorious and fair , Is looked up to the more , because Heaven is there ! MOORE . As lightly floats the water - star , And gems the limpid stream , Thy graceful ...
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acacia acanthus adorn agrimony amaranth amid ancient bloom blossom blue blush bower branches breath bright brilliant brow buds calyx charms cheek colour crown cypress daisy delicate delight Digynia Dog Rose drooping earth ELIZA COOK emblem eyes fair Flora foliage fragrant fresh fruit garden garlands glow golden grace grass green grow happy heart heaven hour innocent Laurustinus leaf leaves light lilac lily lips Marygold MOORE moss Myrtilus myrtle nature night o'er odour ORDER-Monagynia perfume pericarp petals Pink pistils plant pleasure poet poppies pride primrose pure purple Purple Clover rays Rest-Harrow rich root rose seeds sentiments shade shrub sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul species Spiked Speedwell spring Squirting Cucumber stamens star stem sweet tears teints tender thee thine thorns tree tulip Venus's Looking-Glass verdure vervain violet waves WAX MYRTLE Wax-Plant wild Willow-Herb wings wood-sorrel yellow young youth
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Página 219 - To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
Página 60 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Página 211 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Página 107 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
Página 154 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Página 231 - Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman's eye the unanswerable tear ! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue — at once her spear and shield: Avoid it — Virtue ebbs and Wisdom errs, Too fondly gazing on that grief of hers ! What lost a world, and hade a hero fly ? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
Página 131 - Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
Página 143 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Página 202 - And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
Página 228 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...