The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry: To which are Added, a Simple Treatise on Botany, with Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral DictionaryFrances Sargent Osgood |
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... bud . The pheasant walks gracefully among the flowers ; and the dove and the nightingale warble from the branches of the cypress . From the present time to the latest age , may these banks resemble the bowers of Paradise ! * In ...
... bud . The pheasant walks gracefully among the flowers ; and the dove and the nightingale warble from the branches of the cypress . From the present time to the latest age , may these banks resemble the bowers of Paradise ! * In ...
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... buds , such fair types of itself . The young , the middle - aged , and the hoary head , sil- vered with the snows of threescore years and ten ; all , all hang ( still , small No wonder with delight over the 18 INTRODUCTION .
... buds , such fair types of itself . The young , the middle - aged , and the hoary head , sil- vered with the snows of threescore years and ten ; all , all hang ( still , small No wonder with delight over the 18 INTRODUCTION .
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... bud of infancy , the half - expanded flower of youth , the perfect blooms of the meridian of life , and the drooping leaves of closing existence , are here all seen and noted . No wonder that man , in the beau- tiful simplicity of ...
... bud of infancy , the half - expanded flower of youth , the perfect blooms of the meridian of life , and the drooping leaves of closing existence , are here all seen and noted . No wonder that man , in the beau- tiful simplicity of ...
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... buds , the eye surveys its harmo- nious outlines with delight . But how shall we describe the delicate tints of its enchanting colours , or the sweet perfume which it exhales ? Behold , in the spring it raises itself softly in the midst ...
... buds , the eye surveys its harmo- nious outlines with delight . But how shall we describe the delicate tints of its enchanting colours , or the sweet perfume which it exhales ? Behold , in the spring it raises itself softly in the midst ...
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... buds arise . When revel reigns , when mirth is high , And Bacchus beams in every eye , Our rosy fillets scent exhale , And fill with balm the fainting gale . Oh ! there is naught in nature bright , Where AND FLOWERS OF POETRY . 35.
... buds arise . When revel reigns , when mirth is high , And Bacchus beams in every eye , Our rosy fillets scent exhale , And fill with balm the fainting gale . Oh ! there is naught in nature bright , Where AND FLOWERS OF POETRY . 35.
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Page 219 - To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
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 211 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
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 231 - Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman's eye the unanswerable tear ! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue — at once her spear and shield: Avoid it — Virtue ebbs and Wisdom errs, Too fondly gazing on that grief of hers ! What lost a world, and hade a hero fly ? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
Page 131 - Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
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 202 - And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
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...