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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... braid , Breathing sighs of pure incense above ; - It will bloom in the sun , it will smile in the shade , For Beauty , for Friendship , and Love ! F. B. 0 . I sing of brooks , of blossoms , birds , PLATE I.-FRONTISPIECL ...
... braid , Breathing sighs of pure incense above ; - It will bloom in the sun , it will smile in the shade , For Beauty , for Friendship , and Love ! F. B. 0 . I sing of brooks , of blossoms , birds , PLATE I.-FRONTISPIECL ...
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... pure and guiltless garden grew . MRS . BARBAuld . Let Fancy lead us , with her fair imaginings , and it shall te in pleasant paths , and through flowery ways ; Go , cull the golden fruits of truth ; Go , gather fancy's brilliant flowers ...
... pure and guiltless garden grew . MRS . BARBAuld . Let Fancy lead us , with her fair imaginings , and it shall te in pleasant paths , and through flowery ways ; Go , cull the golden fruits of truth ; Go , gather fancy's brilliant flowers ...
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... pure sweetness of the jessamine ; What is it those sighs confess ? But we are extending this part beyond our limits . Flowers afford a certain means of determining the state of the atmo- sphere . " Many species are admirable barometers ...
... pure sweetness of the jessamine ; What is it those sighs confess ? But we are extending this part beyond our limits . Flowers afford a certain means of determining the state of the atmo- sphere . " Many species are admirable barometers ...
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... Pure as a heart in its native heaven ; Fame's bright star and glory's swell , By the glossy leaf of the bay are given . The silent , soft , and humble heart In the violet's hidden sweetness breathes ; And the ter der soul that cannot ...
... Pure as a heart in its native heaven ; Fame's bright star and glory's swell , By the glossy leaf of the bay are given . The silent , soft , and humble heart In the violet's hidden sweetness breathes ; And the ter der soul that cannot ...
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... 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 ingeniously made emblematical of ...
... 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 ingeniously made emblematical of ...
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acacia acanthus adorn agrimony amaranth amid ancient beautiful bloom blossom blue blush bower branches breath bright brilliant brow buds calyx charms cheek colour crown cypress daisy delicate delight Digynia Dog Rose earth ELIZA COOK emblem fair flowers foliage fragrant fresh fruit garden glow golden grace grass green grief grow happy heart heaven ILLUSTRATION OF PLATE innocent Laurustinus leaf leaves light lilac lily lips Marygold MOORE moss Motherwort Myrtilus myrtle nature night o'er odour ORDER-Monagynia perfume pericarp petals pistils plant pleasure poet poppies pride primrose pure purple rays Rest-Harrow rich root rose seeds sentiments shade shrub sigh sleep smile snow soft sorrow soul species Spiked Speedwell spring Squirting Cucumber stamens star stem sweet tears teints tender thee thine thorns tree tulip Venus's Looking-Glass verdure vervain violet waves WAX MYRTLE Wax-Plant wild Willow-Herb wings wood-sorrel yellow young youth
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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.