 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands ; Oft, as light clouds o'erpass the summer's glade, Alarm'd she trembles at the moving shade; And...through all her tender form The whisper'd murmurs of the gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshen'd charms the... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...each rude touch withdraws her timid hands ; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade, Alarmed, she trembles at the moving shade, And feels alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eyelids to the approaching night, And hails... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 600 pages
...stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands ; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer-glade, Alarm'd she trembles at the moving shade ; And feels,...all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs of the gathering storm.' The American catch-fly plant entraps the unwary insect by a sudden inclosure of its... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - 1847 - 76 pages
...sensitivd) : ^--^ " Weak with nice sense the chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands : Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade, Alarm'd, she trembles at the morning shade, And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs of the gathering... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1848 - 414 pages
...stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands : Oft as light clouds pass o'er the summer's glade, Alarm'd she trembles at the moving shade, And...all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs of the gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshen'd charms the... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1851 - 74 pages
...sensitiva) : " Weak with nice sense the chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands : Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade,...all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs of the gathering storm, Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshen'd charms the... | |
 | Joseph Breck - Floriculture - 1851 - 346 pages
...each rude touch withdraws her tender hands ; Oft, as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade, Alarmed, she trembles at the moving shade, And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eye-lids to approaching night, And hails,... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazurus - Hygiene - 1852 - 458 pages
...From each rude touch removes her timid hands, Oft as light clouds o'er pass the summer glade, Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade, And feels alive through all her tender form The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night And hails with... | |
 | Popular flowers - 1854 - 250 pages
...from each touch withdraws her timid hands ; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade, Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade ; And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm." Dr. Dutrochet made a series of experiments upou this wonderful... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1864 - 916 pages
...chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hand): Oft as light clouds o'er pass the summer glade, Alarm'd she trembles at the moving shade : And feels alive through all her tcnd'r form, The whispering murmurs of the gathering storm; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching... | |
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Weak with nice sense, the chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands ; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the... 
