 | George Luxford, Edward Newman - Botany - 1846 - 388 pages
...of the lovely Gentiana verna — the most beautiful of all our Gentians. It was in full bloom — " Blue— blue— as if the sky let fall A flower from its own carulean wall." Here also I met with Carduus nutans, Asperula Cynanchica and odorata, Chlora perfoliata,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Education - Education - 1852 - 1004 pages
...from it. A dull, sober, quakerish clay shoots up " the splendid hues of the hypoxis," and the lupine spreads its soft azure petals over the sharp yellow...breast of rocks. Others, on margins of the ocean, distill sweetness through roots soaked always in bitter brine ; and others seem to breathe in their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teachers - 1860 - 606 pages
...from it. A dull, sober, quakerish clay shoots up " the splendid hues of the hypoxis," and the lupine spreads its soft azure petals over the sharp yellow...breast of rocks. Others, on margins of the ocean, distill sweetness through roots soaked always in bitter brine ; and others seem to breathe in their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 418 pages
...from it. A dull, sober, quakerish clay shoots up " the splendid hues of the hypoxis," and the lupine spreads its soft azure petals over the sharp yellow sand. The fringed gentian, " Bine, blue as if the eky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall," smiles over the blackest mud.... | |
 | Edward Sprague Rand - Floriculture - 1863 - 434 pages
...lovely than a tuft of these beautiful harbingers of spring, gazing with open eyes to the heavens ! "Blue, blue as if the sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall." The wild varieties are found of every shade, from a deep blue to pure white ; the former are the most... | |
 | Edward Sprague Rand - Floriculture - 1870 - 426 pages
...lovely than a tuft of these beautiful harbingers of spring, gazing with open eyes to the heavens ! " Blue, blue as if the sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall." The wild varieties are found of every shade, from a deep blue to pure white ; the former are the most... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Sermons, American - 1879 - 368 pages
...is finite ; it has its limits. But not so your thrill of happiness as you come upon this flower— " Blue, blue, as if the sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall"— as you are walking across country some October day and find it with the dew upon its fringes, shooting... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 290 pages
...suggested that poem of sweetest sadness, 'The melancholy days are come.' By these road-sides spring the fringed gentian — " ' Blue, blue, as if the sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall' — a poem sufficient to win immortality. Through these skies the waterfowl flew along its ' solitary... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 284 pages
...suggested that poem of sweetest sadness, 'The melancholy days are come.' By these road-sides spring the fringed gentian — " ' Blue, blue, as if the sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall' — a poem sufficient to win immortality. Through these skies the waterfowl flew along its 'solitary... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 328 pages
...suggested that poem of sweetest sadness, 'The melancholy days are come.' By these road-sides spring the fringed gentian — " ' Blue, blue, as if the sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall' — a poem sufficient to win immortality. Through these skies the waterfowl flew along its ' solitary... | |
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... gives no prophetic pledge, to the eye, of the beauty that will bloom from it. A dull, sober, quakerish clay shoots up " the splendid hues of the hypoxis," and the lupine spreads its soft azure petals over the sharp yellow sand. The fringed gentian,... 
