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" DOWN in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair ! It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. "
The Character Building Readers: First reader, part one-[eighth year] - Page 198
by Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910
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Accepted Addresses; Or, Proemium Poetarum: To which are Added, Macbeth ...

Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...and shady bed A modest violet grew; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright...have graced a rosy bower Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed; And there diffused its sweet perfume Within...
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Original Poems, for Infant Minds, Volume 2

Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor - Children - 1821 - 184 pages
...bent, it bung its head, As if to hide from view: And yet it was a lovely flower, Us colours bright ami fair; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there; Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there it spread its sweet perfume,...
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Original Poems for Infant Minds

Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor - Children's poetry, English - 1830 - 158 pages
...stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colours bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there it shed its sweet perfume, Within...
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Original poems, for infant minds, by several young persons [A. and J. Taylor ...

Ann Taylor - 1835 - 156 pages
...stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colours bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there diffused a sweet perfume, Within...
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The Ladies' Wreath: A Selection from the Female Poetic Writers of England ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 416 pages
...stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its color bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed; And there it sheds its sweet perfume, Within...
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Original Poems for Infant Minds

Jane Taylor - 1844 - 192 pages
...VIOLET. UOW.N in the green and shady bed A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright...have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there it spreads its sweet perfume,...
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The Girl's Casket

Mrs. Lovechild - Chapbooks - 1848 - 32 pages
...and shady bed, A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright...have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there it spread its sweet perfume,...
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The Little Speaker, and Juvenile Reader: Being a Collection of Pieces in ...

Charles Northend - Readers (Primary) - 1866 - 172 pages
...and shac!/ bed A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright...have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there it spread its sweet perfume...
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Tales and stories for the young

Tales - 1849 - 300 pages
...stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colours bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed, And there diffused a sweet perfume, Within...
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My Little Hymn Book

Children's poetry - 1850 - 156 pages
...it hung its head, As if to hide from view. 9 And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright arid fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed ; And there it spread its sweet perfume,...
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