 | Education - 1914 - 656 pages
...better far To rule by love than fear; Speak gently; let no harsh word mar The good we might do here. 14. Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew;...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. 15.... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - Readers - 1910 - 290 pages
...this happy change have taken place in his mother's fortune ? —From the French. LXIX. THE VIOLET 1. Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew...was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. 2. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 608 pages
...cap; the green sepals a collar. Tell the story, "How the Bees Got Honey from the Honey Bag." Teach: "Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head :.ai ' As if to hide from view." — Lovejoy's "Nature in Verse." r .::.•. w;> THE PANSY. Specimens... | |
 | Education - 1903 - 512 pages
...But long it won't be, Don't you know? Don't you see? Unless we are as good as can be ?" — Larcom. THE VIOLET. Down in a green and shady bed, A modest...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. Yet... | |
 | American poetry - 1911 - 308 pages
...laugh and upturn All your fronds, little Fern, And rejoice in the beat of the rain ! John B. Tabb. r The Violet Down in a green and shady bed A modest...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... | |
 | B. Ellen Burke - 1911 - 268 pages
...TAYLOR (1783-1824), an English woman, who has given the world a few most beautiful poems on nature. Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew;...head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its color bright and fair; Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed; And... | |
 | American poetry - 1915 - 488 pages
...their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading." Isaac Watts [1674-1748] THE VIOLET DOWN in a green and shady bed A modest...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. Dirty... | |
 | John Walter Davis - Readers - 1913 - 380 pages
...shad-y bed, A mod-est vi - o - let 2. Yet thus it was con - tent to bloom, In mod - est tinta ar ± grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from rayed, and there dif-f used a sweet per-fume,With-in the si - lent fair; It might have graced a ro-... | |
 | Ann Taylor - Children's poetry, English - 1914 - 136 pages
...know, Might well be called a dunce ; But I in knowledge quick will grow, For youth can come but once. THE VIOLET Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, And yet it was a lovely flower, "Its colour bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 658 pages
...As sweetly, lady, give me leave to tell ye, This little Pipkin fits this little Jelly. Robert Henick THE VIOLET Down in a green and shady bed A modest...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... | |
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THE VIOLET. 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. 
