The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry: To which are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral Dictionary |
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... charm for the shaded eve . And among other poets , we often meet with allusions to floral dials . The dial hid by weeds and flowers , Hath told , by none beheld , the solitary hours . Young Joy ne'er thought of conting hours . ' Till ...
... charm for the shaded eve . And among other poets , we often meet with allusions to floral dials . The dial hid by weeds and flowers , Hath told , by none beheld , the solitary hours . Young Joy ne'er thought of conting hours . ' Till ...
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... charms here ; while in other lands they almost subserve the use of writing - expressing by a blossom , joy , grief , hope , despair , devotion , piety , and almost every sen- timent that fills the mind . In Eastern lands they talk in ...
... charms here ; while in other lands they almost subserve the use of writing - expressing by a blossom , joy , grief , hope , despair , devotion , piety , and almost every sen- timent that fills the mind . In Eastern lands they talk in ...
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... charms even to love - to that pure and chaste affection , which , as Plato observes , is an inspiration from the gods . The expression of this divine passion ought to be divine also , and it was to illustrate this that flowers were ...
... charms even to love - to that pure and chaste affection , which , as Plato observes , is an inspiration from the gods . The expression of this divine passion ought to be divine also , and it was to illustrate this that flowers were ...
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... charm to the sweet inter- course of friendship , and to filial and maternal love ; it adds to the delight of youthful affections , and affords an excellent mode of recognition . The unfortunate may even find a faith- ful messenger in a ...
... charm to the sweet inter- course of friendship , and to filial and maternal love ; it adds to the delight of youthful affections , and affords an excellent mode of recognition . The unfortunate may even find a faith- ful messenger in a ...
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... charms to the language . Little study is necessary in the science here taught ; nature has been before us . It will suffice that two or three rules be given , which the reader will do well first to learn , and then by refer- ence to the ...
... charms to the language . Little study is necessary in the science here taught ; nature has been before us . It will suffice that two or three rules be given , which the reader will do well first to learn , and then by refer- ence to the ...
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Page 202 - And when the child was grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Page 60 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Page 211 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 107 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
Page 154 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 143 - 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 164 - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Page 190 - O virgin Queen of Spring ! Shalt, from thy dark and lowly bed, Bursting thy green sheath's silken string, Unveil thy charms, and perfume shed; Unfold thy robes of purest white, Unsullied from their darksome grave ; And thy soft petals' silvery light, In the mild breeze unfettered wave.
Page 234 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Page 231 - Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman's eye the unanswerable tear ! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue — at once her spear and shield: Avoid it — Virtue ebbs and Wisdom errs, Too fondly gazing on that grief of hers ! What lost a world, and hade a hero fly ? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.