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alder Alpine anemone aster Autumn azalea barberry beautiful bees berries birches bloom blossoms blue bouquet brown BROWN UNIVERSITY buds bushes butter-and-eggs charming climb clothed clusters color common copses corolla daisies dandelion deep delicate Diapensia dwarf early England exquisite feathery ferns fly honeysuckle foliage forest fringed fruit garden gentian glossy glow golden golden-rod gorgeous grass Gray green grows insects Jack-in-the-pulpit leaf lilies lingers maple MARY DYER meadows milk-weed mosses Mount Lafayette mountain mountain laurel Nature odor orchids perhaps petals pink plants pods pond pond-lily pretty primrose purple racemes rare receipt of price Rhode Island Rhododendron Rhododendron Lapponicum rose Saxifraga aizoides scarlet season seen Sent postpaid showy shrub snow Solidago species spring stamens stars stem summer swamps sweet tassels Thou tints tion trees Veronica alpina Viola palustris violet weed white flowers WILD FLOWERS winter wonder woods yellow
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Page 24 - Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare To meet thee, when thy faint perfume Alone is in the virgin air. Of all her train, the hands of Spring First plant thee in the watery mould, And I have seen thee blossoming Beside the snow-bank's edges cold.
Page 120 - Strong the earthy odor grows — I smell the mould above the rose ! Welcome life ! the spirit strives ! • Strength returns and hope revives; Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn Fly like shadows at the morn, — O'er the earth there comes a bloom ; Sunny light for sullen gloom, Warm perfume for vapor cold — I smell the rose above the mould ! April, 1845.
Page 133 - Thy fruit full well the schoolboy knows, Wild bramble of the brake ! So put thou forth thy small white rose ; I love it for his sake. Though woodbines flaunt and roses glow O'er all the fragrant bowers, Thou needst not be ashamed to show Thy satin-threaded flowers ; For dull the eye, the heart is dull, That cannot feel how fair, Amid all beauty beautiful, Thy tender blossoms are...
Page 89 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Page 95 - I LOVE to wander through the woodlands hoary In the soft light of an autumnal day, When Summer gathers up her robes of glory, And like a dream of beauty glides away.
Page 25 - Thou art the go-between of rustic lovers ; Thy white bark has their secrets in its keeping ; Reuben writes here the happy name of Patience, And thy...
Page 55 - The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.