 | 1853 - 640 pages
...DICOTYLEDONS. SUB-CLASS II. CALYCIFLOR.E. Order XXII. Leguminosae, or the Pea Tribe. " HERE are sweet-peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. THIS large... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...Flying-flowers ; and indeed they are always produced in the finest flower-gardens." " Here are sweet-peas 6n tip-toe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. In his Calendar... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 pages
...Flying-flowers ; and indeed they are always produced in the finest flower-gardens." " Here are sweet-peas on tip-toe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. In his Calendar... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Floriculture - 1829 - 442 pages
...Natural Order Papilionacei, or Lrguminosee. A Genus of the Diadclphia Decandria Class. Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper lingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. KEATS. THE Sweet... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...two-flowered. The LathyruS, odoratVS. blossoms are beautifully rich in coloringDEPARTURE. Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Keats. SENTIMENT.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flowers in literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...— blue, lilac, rose, white, &c. all in the same flower, very fragrant. DEPARTURE. Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. KEATS. SENTIMENT.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1838 - 282 pages
...coloring—blue, lilac, rose, white, etc., all in the same flower, very fragrant. DEPARTURE. Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers, catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. SENTIMENT. I must... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...Tell him, I have you in my world of blisses : So haply when I rove in some far vale, Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon... | |
 | George William Francis - 1844 - 278 pages
...plants, enable the stem to climb upwards towards the light and air, as Keats says : — Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight. With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white. And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them close about with tiny rings. GREAT-FLOWERED... | |
 | John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...blisses : So haply when I rove in some far vale, His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon... | |
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Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. 
