Favourite field flowers; or, Wild flowers of England popularly described1848 |
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... bank , In childhood's happy prime , As joyous their sweet breath I drank- How quickly passed the time ! In later youth I've loved to seek The little purple flower , So pretty , neat ; so modest , meek- How quickly fled the hour ! And ...
... bank , In childhood's happy prime , As joyous their sweet breath I drank- How quickly passed the time ! In later youth I've loved to seek The little purple flower , So pretty , neat ; so modest , meek- How quickly fled the hour ! And ...
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... banks and in shady lanes , any where in England . There are several other flowers of the same family as this , which is known as the sweet Violet ( Viola Odorata ) ; it is common to all Europe , and its colour was much prized by the ...
... banks and in shady lanes , any where in England . There are several other flowers of the same family as this , which is known as the sweet Violet ( Viola Odorata ) ; it is common to all Europe , and its colour was much prized by the ...
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... ear like the sweet south , That breathes upon a bank of violets , Stealing and giving odour . " Barry Cornwall awards to the Violet precedence of the Rose ; and Miss Landon intimates in some very 10 FAVOURITE FIELD FLOWERS .
... ear like the sweet south , That breathes upon a bank of violets , Stealing and giving odour . " Barry Cornwall awards to the Violet precedence of the Rose ; and Miss Landon intimates in some very 10 FAVOURITE FIELD FLOWERS .
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... bank , rising from the road side and overhung by the branches of some lofty tree ; and again on the moist margin of a bubbling brook , where they seem to bask in the mild sun - beams , and enjoy their brief existence in the highest ...
... bank , rising from the road side and overhung by the branches of some lofty tree ; and again on the moist margin of a bubbling brook , where they seem to bask in the mild sun - beams , and enjoy their brief existence in the highest ...
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... banks , in the months of March , of April , and of May , he finds our favourite blooming in abundance . Shakspeare has made the Primrose a funereal flower . In " Cymbeline " we find Arviragus addressing the sup- posed dead body of ...
... banks , in the months of March , of April , and of May , he finds our favourite blooming in abundance . Shakspeare has made the Primrose a funereal flower . In " Cymbeline " we find Arviragus addressing the sup- posed dead body of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abundance Adonis Anemone banks beautiful beneath Bindweed bloom blossoms blue bower branches breath bright buds Buttercup called calyx Celandine Cinquefoil colour common corolla Cowslip creeping Crocus Crowfoot cultivated Daffodil Daisy delight Dutch earth egg-shaped elegant fair fancy favourite fields flowers grow footstalks Forget-me-not Foxglove fragrance Furze garden Gentian golden Grape Hyacinth green Harebell hedges Hyacinth indigenous Ital leaves Lesser Celandine Lily Linnæan class Pentandria Linnæan system lobes meadows Mezereon moist month Mouse-ear Hawkweed Musk Mallow Natural order Natural system numerous o'er Orchis order Monogynia pale Pansy pastures Periwinkle petals Pimpernel pink plant poet Port pretty primrose purple Ranunculacea Red Valerian rich root rose round Russ Saffron scarlet Scarlet Pimpernel season shade shady shining slender Snap-dragon Snowdrop soil species spot spreading spring Spring Gentian stem stream sweet thee thou Violet wall-flower weeds whence wild flowers woods yellow yellow pimpernel
Passagens conhecidas
Página 73 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 35 - Thrice welcome, darling of the spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird : but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery. The same whom in my schoolboy days I listened to ; that cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Página 34 - Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear; From hill to hill it seems to pass At once far off, and near.
Página 62 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the Sun.
Página 14 - 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 azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 124 - And of birchen glades breathing their balm, While the deer was seen glancing in sunshine remote, And the deep mellow crush of the wood-pigeon's note Made music that sweetened the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune Than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : Of old ruinous castles ye tell, Where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, When the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, And your blossoms were part of her spell.
Página 120 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 23 - Tis the early April lark, Or the rooks, with busy caw, Foraging for sticks and straw.
Página 109 - The man who proceeds in it with steadiness and resolution, will in a little time find that ' her ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.
Página 121 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.