Familiar Garden Flowers

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Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1879
 

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Pagina 128 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life...
Pagina 54 - Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily ; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At everie little breath that under heaven is blowne.
Pagina 53 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen : for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Pagina 128 - To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream; With these, that never fade, the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams...
Pagina 68 - Could Time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin...
Pagina 54 - Upon the top of all his lofty crest, A bunch of hairs, discoloured diversely, With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest, Did shake, and seemed to dance for jollity ; Like to an almond tree, ymounted high On top of green Selinis...
Pagina 18 - That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, To which time will but make thee more dear: No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Pagina 72 - Sweet- William small has form and aspect bright, Like that sweet flower that yields great Jove delight ; Had he majestic bulk, he'd now be styled Jove's flower ; and, if my skill is not beguiled, He was Jove's flower when Jove was but a child. Take him with many flowers in one conferr'd, He 's worthy Jove, e'en now he has a beard.

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