Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry, ed. by H.G. AdamsHenry Gardiner Adams 1844 |
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... passing bright . " - H . G. A. The friendships and affections ye entertain one for another , though warm as the sunbeams wherein ye delight to bask , are of an ethereal character , and stain- less as the dews by which ye are nourished ...
... passing bright . " - H . G. A. The friendships and affections ye entertain one for another , though warm as the sunbeams wherein ye delight to bask , are of an ethereal character , and stain- less as the dews by which ye are nourished ...
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... passing air , Makes sabbath in the fields , and ever ringeth A call to prayer . Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand , But to that fane , most catholic and solemn , Which God hath planned ...
... passing air , Makes sabbath in the fields , and ever ringeth A call to prayer . Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand , But to that fane , most catholic and solemn , Which God hath planned ...
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... passing bright ; — And hold my breath , Lest a foul taint of death Should lurk therein , your beauties all to blight . Methinks of speech A silent faculty ye have , to teach Submission to thy will divine ; Few are your days , but ye Die ...
... passing bright ; — And hold my breath , Lest a foul taint of death Should lurk therein , your beauties all to blight . Methinks of speech A silent faculty ye have , to teach Submission to thy will divine ; Few are your days , but ye Die ...
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... Passing at eve away ; Teach this , and - oh ! though brief your reign Sweet flowers ye shall not live in vain . Go , form a monitory wreath For youth's unthinking brow ; Go , and to busy mankind breathe What most he fears to know ; Go ...
... Passing at eve away ; Teach this , and - oh ! though brief your reign Sweet flowers ye shall not live in vain . Go , form a monitory wreath For youth's unthinking brow ; Go , and to busy mankind breathe What most he fears to know ; Go ...
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... passes away ; and has the pride and the strength of manhood a firmer tenure of existence ? Oh , no ! of the whole period of our earthly being we may well say : - K " What is life ? like a flower , with FLORAL SIMILITUDES . 145.
... passes away ; and has the pride and the strength of manhood a firmer tenure of existence ? Oh , no ! of the whole period of our earthly being we may well say : - K " What is life ? like a flower , with FLORAL SIMILITUDES . 145.
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Términos y frases comunes
adorn Almighty band beautiful bells bend beneath blessing bloom blossoms blue blush bosom bough bowers breath breeze bride bright Bring flowers brow buds CAROLINE BOWLES CHARLOTTE SMITH charm connecting space cowslips crown daisy dead deck delicate delight doth dream e'en earth EBENEZER ELLIOT ELIZA RENNIE Elves eyes fair fairest fairy fields floral fragrance fresh gale garden garlands gather gentle grace grass grave green grove grow hand harebells hath heart heaven holy hope hour Language of Flowers leaves light lily look love ye loveliness maiden mountain N. P. WILLIS nature nature's neath night nosegays o'er odours pale pale flowers perfume plants pleasant poet primrose purple queen rich rose says scent sighs singing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul spirit spring stream strew summer sweetest tears thee thou thought tomb trees vale violet wandering waving wild banks wild flowers woods
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Página 21 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Página 121 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 248 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Página 85 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes!
Página 229 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 132 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry, On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 47 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of His servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all...
Página 246 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Página 238 - Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble ; and beneath, A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death Welcoming...
Página 237 - Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread...