 | 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 Institute of Instruction - Education - 1856 - 190 pages
...from it. A dull, sober, quakerish clay shoots up " the splendid hues of the hypoxis," and the lupin,; spreads its soft azure petals over the sharp yellow...breast of rocks. Others, on margins of the ocean, distil sweetness through roots soaked always in bitter brine ; and others seem to breathe in their... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1858 - 918 pages
...the Lord. This is the manhood that our age and country are asking of its educators, — well built and vital, manifold and harmonious, full of wisdom,...breast of rocks. Others, on margins of the ocean, distil sweetness through roots soaked always in bitter brine ; and others seem to breathe in their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 418 pages
...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...blackest mud. There are plants that suck luxuriant vordure from the arid breast of rocks. Others, on margins of the ocean, distill sweetness through roots... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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... earthy bed 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... 
