 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 566 pages
...mole-hill." Trees, flowers, every growing thing was sacred to him, and informed with happy life. It was his wish and way "To let all flowers live freely, and...breath upon its bank, And not reproached me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold."... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 336 pages
...without them her best stores. They bring me tales of youth and tones of love, And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoil'd, nor... | |
 | Florence Caddy - Natural history - 1887 - 388 pages
...upon them, as we embalm the memory of our friends and adorn their graves. And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely and all...Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank, And not reproacht me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor... | |
 | Florence Caddy - Natural history - 1887 - 376 pages
...upon them, as we embalm the memory of our friends and adorn their graves. And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely and all...Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank, And not reproacht me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Amusements - 1889 - 356 pages
...expressed, he repeated the folly in later years to a wider audience : — And 'tis, and ever was, my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...depart Among their kindred in their native place. • " Walter Savage Landor," John Forster, i., 13. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head Hath... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Amusements - 1889 - 354 pages
...later years to a wider audience : — And 'tis, and ever was, my wish and way To let all flowers lire freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their...depart Among their kindred in their native place. * " Walter Savage Landor," John Forster, i., 13. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head Hath shaken... | |
 | Cornelia A. H. Crosse - 1892 - 370 pages
...without them her best stores. They bring me tales of youth and tones of love, And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...depart) Among their kindred in their native place." Landor would occasionally fall into silence, and his thoughts apparently wandering far away, perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...without them her best stores. They bring me tales of youth and tones of love, And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold, I saw the light... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...Julian, etc., 1831). ' And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely. . . . I never pluck the rose : the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me : the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoil'd, nor... | |
 | John Forster - 1895 - 600 pages
...is expressed, he repeated the folly in later years to a wider audience: ' And ' t is and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...my breath upon its bank And not reproached me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, onsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold.'... | |
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tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart, Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank... 
