The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry: To which are Added a Simple Treatise on Botany. With Familiar Examples, and a Copious Floral DictionaryJ. B. Lippincott, 1863 - 276 ページ |
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acacia acanthus adorn agrimony amaranth amid ancient beautiful bloom blossom blue blush bower branches breath bright brilliant brow buds calyx charms cheek colour crown cypress daisy delicate delight Digynia Dog Rose earth ELIZA COOK emblem fair flowers foliage fragrant fresh fruit garden glow golden grace grass green grief grow happy heart heaven ILLUSTRATION OF PLATE innocent Laurustinus leaf leaves light lilac lily lips Marygold MOORE moss Motherwort Myrtilus myrtle nature night o'er odour ORDER-Monagynia perfume pericarp petals pistils plant pleasure poet poppies pride primrose pure purple rays Rest-Harrow rich root rose seeds sentiments shade shrub sigh sleep smile snow soft sorrow soul species Spiked Speedwell spring Squirting Cucumber stamens star stem sweet tears teints tender thee thine thorns tree tulip Venus's Looking-Glass verdure vervain violet waves WAX MYRTLE Wax-Plant wild Willow-Herb wings wood-sorrel yellow young youth
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188 ページ - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
228 ページ - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
143 ページ - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
216 ページ - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws, Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
60 ページ - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
188 ページ - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
107 ページ - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
154 ページ - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
92 ページ - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
202 ページ - And when the child was grown, it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.