The Language and Poetry of Flowers, Ausgabe 272George Routledge and Sons, 1873 - 159 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acacia Affection Amaranth American Balm bloom blossoms blue blush boughs bower breath bright buds Camellia Japonica Carnation Catchfly CHAPTER charms Cheerfulness Cherry China Aster Christmas Rose Clematis Columbine Convolvulus Cornel Tree COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON Cowslip Crocus crown Daisy Deceit delight dewy Dittany of Crete fair fairy Fern Fidelity flower fragrant Friendship Garden Garden Chervil gentle Geranium glade Glory golden grace Grass green Guelder Rose happy Harebell Hawkweed Hawthorn heart heaven HEMANS Holly Tree Honeysuckle Indian Jasmine Jonquil LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Larkspur leaf leaves Lilac Lily loveliness Mallow Marigold Misanthropy Miss Twamley modest Moss Mourning Nature's o'er odour Ophrys Orchis Ox Eye Pimpernel Pink poet Polyanthus pride Primrose purple rich Saffron Scarlet Sensitive Plant smile Snowdrop Sorrel Southernwood speaks Speedwell Spiderwort Spring star Starwort summer sweet Sweetbrier sweetest thee Thorn thou Tuberose Tulip Violet Weeping White Rose Willow Wolfsbane Wordsworth Yellow youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 87 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Seite 92 - The door I opened to my heavenly guest, And listened, for I thought I heard God's voice ; And, knowing whatsoe'er he sent was best, Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice. Then with a smile, that filled the house with light, "My errand is not Death, but Life," he said; And ere I answered, passing out of sight, On his celestial embassy he sped.
Seite 8 - TO DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Seite 95 - To BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree. Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last.
Seite 129 - What first inspired a bard of old to sing Narcissus pining o'er the untainted spring? In some delicious ramble, he had found A little space, with boughs all woven round ; And in the midst of all, a clearer pool Than e'er reflected in its pleasant cool, The blue sky here, and there, serenely peeping Through tendril wreaths fantastically creeping.
Seite 139 - Whilst the lagging hours of the day went by Like windless clouds o'er a tender sky. And when evening descended from heaven above, And the Earth was all rest, and the air was all love, And delight, tho...
Seite 137 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant...
Seite 143 - 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.
Seite 94 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 89 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem...