Flowers and their associationsCharles Knight and Company, 22 Ludgate Street, 1840 - 409 páginas |
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... Wind Flower - Music of Nature - Wood Anemone -Blue Mountain Anemone - Pasque Flower Anemone - Wild Yellow Anemone - Naturalization of Foreign Plants - Coru Cockle Fumitory Garden Anemonies -Verses on Wood - Anemonies - 140 149 161 - 179 ...
... Wind Flower - Music of Nature - Wood Anemone -Blue Mountain Anemone - Pasque Flower Anemone - Wild Yellow Anemone - Naturalization of Foreign Plants - Coru Cockle Fumitory Garden Anemonies -Verses on Wood - Anemonies - 140 149 161 - 179 ...
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... winds , the elm and ash open their young buds , and a small leaf or two appears here and there on their branches . The garden acacia remains many days longer before it shews one token of spring , and the summer foliage has lent a rich ...
... winds , the elm and ash open their young buds , and a small leaf or two appears here and there on their branches . The garden acacia remains many days longer before it shews one token of spring , and the summer foliage has lent a rich ...
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... winds ; while the privet and ivy , the holly and the butcher's- broom of the hedges , and the evergreens of the garden , still remain to cheer us , and the brown leaves of the young beech tree wait for the spring breezes to scatter them ...
... winds ; while the privet and ivy , the holly and the butcher's- broom of the hedges , and the evergreens of the garden , still remain to cheer us , and the brown leaves of the young beech tree wait for the spring breezes to scatter them ...
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... wind whistles yet so shrilly around his dwelling , that spring and its flowers seem hardly to be thought of , till its herald in the cheerful nosegay bids him leave the fireside , and tells him with voiceless eloquence that it may be ...
... wind whistles yet so shrilly around his dwelling , that spring and its flowers seem hardly to be thought of , till its herald in the cheerful nosegay bids him leave the fireside , and tells him with voiceless eloquence that it may be ...
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... of both hemispheres , and hardily defies the blasts of the Alpine mountain , often growing at a height far above the level of the sea ; while in our own woods and meadows , it braves the east winds of the early spring . Its 28 VIOLETS .
... of both hemispheres , and hardily defies the blasts of the Alpine mountain , often growing at a height far above the level of the sea ; while in our own woods and meadows , it braves the east winds of the early spring . Its 28 VIOLETS .
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Pasajes populares
Página 82 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 166 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Página 226 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Página 147 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Página 96 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!
Página 166 - To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.
Página 376 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 165 - And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, — Whenas a thousand virgins on this day, Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Página 165 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Página 301 - The soul of a true Christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble, on the ground; opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly in the midst of other flowers round about; all, in like manner, opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.