Favourite field flowers; or, Wild flowers of England popularly described1848 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 21
Page 2
... present day it grows abundantly in an uncultivated state in Lancashire , where a bouquet of wild Snowdrops is ... presents itself to our notice as early as January , though more frequently in the beginning of February , when , though ...
... present day it grows abundantly in an uncultivated state in Lancashire , where a bouquet of wild Snowdrops is ... presents itself to our notice as early as January , though more frequently in the beginning of February , when , though ...
Page 6
... present some resemblance to the interior of the Roman dice - box ( Fritillus ) , is an elegant flower , and is found in great abundance in meadows and pastures in the east- ern and southern counties of England , during the month of ...
... present some resemblance to the interior of the Roman dice - box ( Fritillus ) , is an elegant flower , and is found in great abundance in meadows and pastures in the east- ern and southern counties of England , during the month of ...
Page 7
... presents itself so gaily in our gardens in April , belongs to this family ; it was imported here about three centuries ago , and , being a native of Persia , was for a long time called the Persian Lily . THE SWEET - SCENTED VIOLET ...
... presents itself so gaily in our gardens in April , belongs to this family ; it was imported here about three centuries ago , and , being a native of Persia , was for a long time called the Persian Lily . THE SWEET - SCENTED VIOLET ...
Page 8
... presents itself to our notice , have combined to render it so well known , and so eagerly sought for . As we pass along some secluded pathway o'er the fields , late in February , if the season be mild , or in the middle of March , if se ...
... presents itself to our notice , have combined to render it so well known , and so eagerly sought for . As we pass along some secluded pathway o'er the fields , late in February , if the season be mild , or in the middle of March , if se ...
Page 10
... present them at the shrine of beauty . Parny , in this character , says— Vous vous cachez timide Violette , Mais c'est en vain , le doigt sait vous trouver Il vous arrache à l'obscure retraite Qui recélait vos appas inconnus ; Et ...
... present them at the shrine of beauty . Parny , in this character , says— Vous vous cachez timide Violette , Mais c'est en vain , le doigt sait vous trouver Il vous arrache à l'obscure retraite Qui recélait vos appas inconnus ; Et ...
Common terms and phrases
abundance Adonis Anemone banks beautiful beneath Bindweed bloom blossoms blue bower branches breath bright buds Buttercup called calyx Celandine Cinquefoil colour common corolla Cowslip creeping Crocus Crowfoot cultivated Daffodil Daisy delight Dutch earth egg-shaped elegant fair fancy favourite fields flowers grow footstalks Forget-me-not Foxglove fragrance Furze garden Gentian golden Grape Hyacinth green Harebell hedges Hyacinth indigenous Ital leaves Lesser Celandine Lily Linnæan class Pentandria Linnæan system lobes meadows Mezereon moist month Mouse-ear Hawkweed Musk Mallow Natural order Natural system numerous o'er Orchis order Monogynia pale Pansy pastures Periwinkle petals Pimpernel pink plant poet Port pretty primrose purple Ranunculacea Red Valerian rich root rose round Russ Saffron scarlet Scarlet Pimpernel season shade shady shining slender Snap-dragon Snowdrop soil species spot spreading spring Spring Gentian stem stream sweet thee thou Violet wall-flower weeds whence wild flowers woods yellow yellow pimpernel
Popular passages
Page 73 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 35 - Thrice welcome, darling of the spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird : but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery. The same whom in my schoolboy days I listened to ; that cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Page 34 - Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear; From hill to hill it seems to pass At once far off, and near.
Page 62 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the Sun.
Page 14 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 124 - And of birchen glades breathing their balm, While the deer was seen glancing in sunshine remote, And the deep mellow crush of the wood-pigeon's note Made music that sweetened the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune Than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : Of old ruinous castles ye tell, Where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, When the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, And your blossoms were part of her spell.
Page 120 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 23 - Tis the early April lark, Or the rooks, with busy caw, Foraging for sticks and straw.
Page 109 - The man who proceeds in it with steadiness and resolution, will in a little time find that ' her ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.
Page 121 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.