 | John B. Newman - Botany - 1850 - 246 pages
...meaning butterfly. Here is a Sweet Pea blossom, in allusion to the shape of which Keats remarked : Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white. This large piece on top covering the others is called the standard or banner, a; you will notice as... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - American literature - 1851 - 504 pages
...that 'tis ever startled by the leap Of buds into fresh flowers." And those most exquisitely described Sweet Peas— "On tiptoe for a flight, With wings...taper fingers, catching at all things, To bind them round about with tiny rings." Nor may we forget the Lilac, by Cowper chronicled, — " Various 1n array,—... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : Wilh wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And laper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon ноте bending planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...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...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. What next ? a turf of evening primroses, O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes ; O'er which it... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 350 pages
...haply wisen 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...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. What next ? a turf of evening primroses, O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes ; O'er which it... | |
 | Art - 1854 - 630 pages
...many scenes in Spenser, Crabbe, or Keats. How he would have illustrated such a scene as this : — " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With...white, And taper fingers, catching at all things, THE MILKWOMAN. — FROM A PAINTING BY JBAN BAPTISTE KUBT. fully in our life of David. Huet has been... | |
 | Gift books - 1851 - 388 pages
...laugh at our simplicity, and yet I think we were not unwise in our choice. Our favorite flowers were " Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers, clinging at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." Perhaps I taught my dear Effie to... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...would have illustrated such a scene as this : — • " Here arc sweet peas, on tiptoe for a Hight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers, catching at all thing«, THE MILKWOMAN. — PROM A PAINTING BY JBAN BAPTISTE HUBT. fully in our life of David. Huet... | |
 | 185? - 660 pages
...many scenea in Spenser, Crabbe, or Keats. How he would have illustrated such a scene as this : — " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle Hush o'er delicate while, And taper fingers, catching at all things, THE MILKWOMAN. — FROM A PAINTING... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...world of 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...planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, 206 NEW-YORK INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND. And watch intent! v Nature's gentle doings : Thej will be found... | |
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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. 
