The Botany of the Eastern Borders: With the Popular Names and Uses of the Plants, and of the Customs and Beliefs which Have Been Associated with Them |
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abundant Acrogens Alnwick Ancroft autumn Baird banks beautiful beds Berw Berwick Berwickshire Blackadder boggy borders botanist branches Brit burn Burnmouth called Carboniferous Castle Cheviot Cheviot hills Club coal Cockburnspath Coldingham common corn-fields cultivated Daisy dean district ditches Dulaw favourite feet Ferns fields Flora flowers fossil frequent fronds fruit garden genus Goswick grass green greywacke grows hairy Hardy heaths hedges hills Hist Holy Island Horncliffe inches July June Ladykirk Lammermuirs leaf leaflets leaves Lepidodendron margin meadows moors moss Norham Northumberland numerous panicle parish pastures Penmanshiel pinnules places plant plantations Plate ponds prickles profusion R. D. Thomson rare river road-sides rocks root sandstone Scotland sea-banks seeds seen shale side Sigillaria soil species specimens Sphenopteris spot spring stalk stem Stigmaria summer surface Thistle Trans trees Tweed variety vegetable vulgaris waste grounds weed Whiteadder wild wood
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Page 217 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 230 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Page 214 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 225 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 226 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 235 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Page 23 - YE field flowers ! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, Yet, wildings of Nature, I doat upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old, When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.
Page 287 - My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Page 96 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Page 286 - The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung.