 Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! 0 cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell ! And show me your nest with the young ones in it ; I will not steal them away ; I am old ! you may trust me, linnet, linnet — I am seven...  The Ladies' Repository - Page 3771865Full view - About this book
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Recitations - 1889 - 356 pages
...legs with gold ! O brave marshmary buds, rich and yellow, Give me your money to hold ! O columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves...And show me your nest, with the young ones in it, — 1 will not steal it awav: TB WEST-WOOD. THE queen is proud on her throne, And proud are her maids... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - Flowers - 1890 - 138 pages
...brighter after their nap. " O Columbine ! open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ; O cuckoo-pint ! toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear, green bell." WHY THE FLOWERS BLOOM ONLY HALF THE YEAR. » 7OTHER Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina,... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - Botany - 1891 - 138 pages
...brighter after their nap. " O Columbine ! open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ; O cuckoo-pint ! toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear, green bell." WHY THE FLOWERS BLOOM ONLY HALF THE YEAR. » 'OTHER Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina,... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 216 pages
...powdered your legs with gold ! O columbine ! open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle doves dwell ! 0 cuckoo-pint ! toll me the purple clapper...your clear green bell ! And show me your nest with young ones in it, I will not steal them away ; 1 am old ! You may trust me, linnet, linnet, — I am... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - Botany - 1894 - 86 pages
...English Arum is called Cuckoo-pint and is the flower Jean Ingelow means in her Songs of Seven, — () Cuckoo-pint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell. English children also call the plants, Lords and Ladies, the purple ones being the Lords and the green... | |
 | Maud Going - Flowers - 1894 - 322 pages
...cuckoo-pint," says the glad little birthday-keeper in the first of Jean Ingdow's '• Songs of Seven," " toll me the purple clapper that hangs in your clear green bell." The greenish-white water-arum or marsh-calla, WITH THE WILD FLOWERS. FIG. 16.— ARROW-ARUM (Pellandra... | |
 | 1895 - 328 pages
...me your money to hold ! O columbine, open your folded wrapper Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs...the young ones in it;' I will not steal them away ; I am old ! you may trust me, linnet, linnet — I am seven times one to-day. — Jean fngelow. THE... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...me your money to hold ! O columbine, open your folded wrapper Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs...the young ones in it ; I will not steal them away ; I am old ! you may trust me, linnet, linnet — I am seven times one to-day. — yean Ingelmv. THE... | |
 | Rebecca Smith Pollard - Readers (Elementary) - 1895 - 230 pages
...your money to hold! 6. O, columbine, open your folded wrapper, Where two twin turtle-doves dwell! O, cuckoo-pint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell! 7. A.nd show me your nest, with the young oney in it; POLLARD'S SYNTHETIC SERIES. wagon dragon quietly... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1896 - 200 pages
...show me your silken nest ! O shy little linnet ! another note sing Before you go home to your rest. 7. And show me your nest with the young ones in it ; I will not steal them away ; I am old ! you may trust me, linnet, linnet, — I am seven times one to-day. JEAN INGELOW. READING.... | |
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