 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...without them her best stores. They bring me tales of youth and tones of love, And 't is 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 reproach'd me ; the ever-sacred Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoil'd, nor lost... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...her best thoughts, 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 die (Whene'er their Genius bids their souls Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head Hath shaken with... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 388 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 die (Whene'er their Genins bids their souls depart) Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose ;... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - Natural history - 1897 - 274 pages
...all. Can we attain the delicacy of soul of Landor (I confess it is difficult for me), and say, — " The violet's head Hath shaken with my 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 602 pages
...daily, beat our breast, Prostrate ourselves, and deprecate his wrath. —Gebir. And 'tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...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.... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Readers - 1898 - 314 pages
...without them her best stores. They bring me tales of youth and tones of love, And 't is and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all...place. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head And not reproach'd me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoil'd,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Antislavery movements - 1900 - 464 pages
...tender prayer. His own tenderness for flowers was very great. I trust he knew what Landor wrote: — I never pluck the rose; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath npon its bank And not reproached me; the ever-sacred cup Of the pore lily hath between my hands Felt... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 638 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, uusoiled, nor lost... | |
 | Agriculture - 1899 - 462 pages
...Walter Savage Landor : " Flowers bring me tales of growth and tones of love, And 'tis, and ever was, my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die When 'er their genus bids their souls depart Among their kindred in their native place." The Chinese... | |
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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... 
