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... give an in- creased interest to botanical researches , among young people , at least ; and among all classes would pro- mote a better acquaintance with the beauties of our literature . There is nothing new attempted , except in the ...
... give an in- creased interest to botanical researches , among young people , at least ; and among all classes would pro- mote a better acquaintance with the beauties of our literature . There is nothing new attempted , except in the ...
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... give- Bid its unborn sweets in thy bosom live ; It shall charm thee from all a stranger's pain , Reserve , suspicion , and dark disdain ; A race in its freshness and bloom are we , Bring no cares from a worn - out world with thee . MRS ...
... give- Bid its unborn sweets in thy bosom live ; It shall charm thee from all a stranger's pain , Reserve , suspicion , and dark disdain ; A race in its freshness and bloom are we , Bring no cares from a worn - out world with thee . MRS ...
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... give A lasting beauty to those forms Which scarce a moment live . Alas ! that youth's fond hopes should fade , And love be but a name , While its rainbows , followed e'er so fast , Are distant still the same . DAWES . APOCYNUM ...
... give A lasting beauty to those forms Which scarce a moment live . Alas ! that youth's fond hopes should fade , And love be but a name , While its rainbows , followed e'er so fast , Are distant still the same . DAWES . APOCYNUM ...
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... gives out a fragrant odour . A genus of about thirty - five species , almost exclusively indigenous to Europe . ENERGY IN ADVERSITY . Like the meek Chamomile , it grew Luxuriant from the bruize anew . EASTBURNE . SENTIMENT . I said to ...
... gives out a fragrant odour . A genus of about thirty - five species , almost exclusively indigenous to Europe . ENERGY IN ADVERSITY . Like the meek Chamomile , it grew Luxuriant from the bruize anew . EASTBURNE . SENTIMENT . I said to ...
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... Give me a cheek the heart obeys , And , sweetly mutable , displays Its feelings as they rise ; Features , where pensive more than gay , Save when a rising smile doth play , The sober thoughts you see ; Eyes that all soft and tender seem ...
... Give me a cheek the heart obeys , And , sweetly mutable , displays Its feelings as they rise ; Features , where pensive more than gay , Save when a rising smile doth play , The sober thoughts you see ; Eyes that all soft and tender seem ...
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ANON ANSWER beams beauty BERNARD BARTON bloom blossoms blue blush bosom bower breath bright brow buds calyx Captain Marryat charm cheek Class 19 Class 21 clouds cold colour crimson dark deep Dianthus barbatus dreams earth Europe fade fair feeling flowers found in Europe fragrant gentle genus glow golden grace hath heaven hope hour India JACOB FAITHFUL L. P. SMITH leaf leaves life's light Lily live lonely look Love's loved thee loveliness morning never North America o'er Order 13 pale Pelargonium PERCIVAL perfume PETER SIMPLE pink pistils plant post 8vo Primula auricula pure purple Reseda Odorata Rosa Rose scene SENTIMENT shade shadows shine Siberia skies sleep smile sorrow soul species spirit spring stamens star stem summer sweet tears tender thou art thoughts thy heart tree Umbels violets vols wave weary wild WILLIS yellow young youth
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Page 360 - Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 360 - The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, The autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, And to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, And from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow, Through all the gloomy day.
Page 255 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 361 - When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 5 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life...
Page 336 - Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.
Page 336 - GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 117 - And lovely passions, changing oft, So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns, The idol of past years...
Page 83 - I saw two clouds at morning, Tinged with the rising sun ; And in the dawn they floated on, And mingled into one: I thought that morning cloud was blest, It moved so sweetly to the west. I saw two summer currents...
Page 165 - LAMENT who will, in fruitless tears, The speed with which our moments fly ; I sigh not over vanished years, But watch the years that hasten by. Look, how they come, — a mingled crowd Of bright and dark, but rapid days ; Beneath them, like a summer cloud, The wide world changes as I gaze. What ! grieve that time has brought so soon The sober age of manhood on ! As idly might I weep, at noon, To see the blush of morning gone.