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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... petals up , Retreating from the noontide blaze . Pale as a pensive cloistered nun , The Bethlehem - star her face unveils , When o'er the mountain peers the sun , But shades it from the vesper gales . Among the loose and arid sands The ...
... petals up , Retreating from the noontide blaze . Pale as a pensive cloistered nun , The Bethlehem - star her face unveils , When o'er the mountain peers the sun , But shades it from the vesper gales . Among the loose and arid sands The ...
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... petals entire- ly , on the approach of rain . The African marigold indicates rain , if the corolla is closed after seven or eight in the morning . The common bindweed closes its flowers on the approach of rain ; but the anagallis ...
... petals entire- ly , on the approach of rain . The African marigold indicates rain , if the corolla is closed after seven or eight in the morning . The common bindweed closes its flowers on the approach of rain ; but the anagallis ...
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... petals on the approach of rain . " Gardens have been the delight of poets in all ages . All our poets have sung of flowers . They serve all purposes ; and we are reminded of the fable of the flowers , where the rose says- What can a ...
... petals on the approach of rain . " Gardens have been the delight of poets in all ages . All our poets have sung of flowers . They serve all purposes ; and we are reminded of the fable of the flowers , where the rose says- What can a ...
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... petals , would assure her that her wishes were understood and partaken of . This is an ingenious mode of correspondence , which can never betray nor divulge a secret . This eloquent language gives a charm to the sweet inter- course of ...
... petals , would assure her that her wishes were understood and partaken of . This is an ingenious mode of correspondence , which can never betray nor divulge a secret . This eloquent language gives a charm to the sweet inter- course of ...
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... petals of brilliant red , And keeps her sunny heart warm within , Like a fair girl shutting out grief and sin . F. S. Q. When the sun o'er yonder mountain , Smiles farewell to earth and sky , Meet me Marion , where our fountain Softly ...
... petals of brilliant red , And keeps her sunny heart warm within , Like a fair girl shutting out grief and sin . F. S. Q. When the sun o'er yonder mountain , Smiles farewell to earth and sky , Meet me Marion , where our fountain Softly ...
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Page 188 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 228 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
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 216 - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws, Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
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 188 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
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 92 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
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.