Flora's Lexicon: An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers: with an Outline of Botany, and a Poetical Introduction |
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... thine eternal rest . My first , my last , my only friend ! —if aught the ransom'd know Of the dark thoughts and sinful deeds that stain the world below , How hath thy gentle spirit grieved , as but a mother's can , To see thy precepts ...
... thine eternal rest . My first , my last , my only friend ! —if aught the ransom'd know Of the dark thoughts and sinful deeds that stain the world below , How hath thy gentle spirit grieved , as but a mother's can , To see thy precepts ...
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... thine image , brought By Memory to the passive eye , Would blend with every gentle thought Of dwellers in the distant sky , And float , in airy seeming , by , Fit princess of the sylphid crowds , Born of the wealth of Fantasy In her own ...
... thine image , brought By Memory to the passive eye , Would blend with every gentle thought Of dwellers in the distant sky , And float , in airy seeming , by , Fit princess of the sylphid crowds , Born of the wealth of Fantasy In her own ...
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... thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country . Thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Give me the death of those COWPER . Who for their country die ; And O be ...
... thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country . Thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Give me the death of those COWPER . Who for their country die ; And O be ...
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... thine , Those eyes before me smiling thus , Through good and ill , through storm and shine , The world's a world of love for us ! On some calm , blessed shore we'll dwell , Where ' tis no crime to love too well . " MOORE . SH . Fraxinus ...
... thine , Those eyes before me smiling thus , Through good and ill , through storm and shine , The world's a world of love for us ! On some calm , blessed shore we'll dwell , Where ' tis no crime to love too well . " MOORE . SH . Fraxinus ...
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... thine eye ; Then soaring up , on snowy wings , that brighten as they rise , I hear thy soft voice calling me to meet thee in the skies ! I know that this is but a dream ; that I can never see Thy spirit , until mine shall wear the ...
... thine eye ; Then soaring up , on snowy wings , that brighten as they rise , I hear thy soft voice calling me to meet thee in the skies ! I know that this is but a dream ; that I can never see Thy spirit , until mine shall wear the ...
Common terms and phrases
ancient ANDRIA ANON bear beautiful beneath bloom blossom blush bosom bough bower branches breast breath bright brow buds BYRON called calyx caudex charms cheer Class 12 Class 21 colour common corolla crown Cryptogamia Cuckoo Flower DECANDRIA Demophoon DIADELPHIA DIANDRIA DIGYNIA doth DRIA DRYDEN earth emblem eyes fair favourite Flowering Rush flowers foliage fragrance fruit garden gaze GENESIA gentle genus grace green grows happiness hath heart heaven HEXANDRIA hope hour ICOSANDRIA leaves light look Mezereon mind Monogynia 1 pistil moss rose native never o'er odour Order Monogynia ornament parterre PENTAN PENTANDRIA petals plant POLYANDRIA POLYGAMIA POLYGYNIA purple PURPLE CLOVER rich rose seeds shade SHAKSPEARE shine smile soft sorrow soul species SPENSER spring stamens stem summer SUPERFLUA sweet SYNGENESIA tears thee thine thou thought tree TRIANDRIA Trigynia TWAMLEY wild wind wings wood
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Page 105 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 219 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Page 117 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 209 - Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkerchief about your brows, (The best I had ; a princess wrought it me,) And I did never ask it you again ; And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time ; Saying, What lack you ? and, Where lies your grief?
Page 147 - 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.
Page 98 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 146 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 205 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost...
Page 120 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 35 - Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...