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... tender and devoted thoughts and feelings . The expression of these feelings has been , in all ages , the province of poetry , and to the poets we must refer in order to settle the philology of flowers . This I have endeavored to do . I ...
... tender and devoted thoughts and feelings . The expression of these feelings has been , in all ages , the province of poetry , and to the poets we must refer in order to settle the philology of flowers . This I have endeavored to do . I ...
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... not , however , omit to name " Flora's Dictionary , " and the " Garland of Flo- ra . " I have derived considerable assistance from these compilations , and would 1 tender my sincere thanks to their amiable authors . I iv INTRODUCTION .
... not , however , omit to name " Flora's Dictionary , " and the " Garland of Flo- ra . " I have derived considerable assistance from these compilations , and would 1 tender my sincere thanks to their amiable authors . I iv INTRODUCTION .
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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. tender my sincere thanks to their amiable authors . I am indebted to Nuttall's " Botany " for the locality of flowers , and the number of species , and to Eaton's " Manual " for many valuable hints . But I have ...
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. tender my sincere thanks to their amiable authors . I am indebted to Nuttall's " Botany " for the locality of flowers , and the number of species , and to Eaton's " Manual " for many valuable hints . But I have ...
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... tender seem , And kind affections round them beam , But most of all on me ; A form , though not of finest mould , Where yet a something you behold Unconsciously doth please ; Manners all graceful without art , That to each look and word ...
... tender seem , And kind affections round them beam , But most of all on me ; A form , though not of finest mould , Where yet a something you behold Unconsciously doth please ; Manners all graceful without art , That to each look and word ...
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... tender blame of the fondest ? John Everett . ANSWER . Cast my heart's gold into the furnace - flame , And if it come not thence refined and pure , I'll be a bankrupt to thy hope , and heaven Shall shut its gates on me . Mrs. Sigourney ...
... tender blame of the fondest ? John Everett . ANSWER . Cast my heart's gold into the furnace - flame , And if it come not thence refined and pure , I'll be a bankrupt to thy hope , and heaven Shall shut its gates on me . Mrs. Sigourney ...
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Page 211 - 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 210 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? 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 210 - 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. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 80 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'Tis less of earth than heaven.
Page 143 - LIKE as the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower of May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done.
Page 16 - 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 106 - 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.
Page 121 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Page 211 - And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
Page 101 - And took it down, and vow'd to rove This desert place a huntress bold ; Nor would I change my buried love For any heart of living mould. No ! for I am a hero's child ; I'll hunt my quarry in the wild ; And still my home this mansion make, Of all unheeded and unheeding, . And cherish, for my warrior's sake — ' The flower of love lies bleeding.