 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - Natural history - 1870 - 316 pages
...flowers, resting ou a bed of deep green foliage, are, iu the early season, conspicuously large and bright. Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about its nest, Thou wile come with half a cull, Spreading out thy glossy breast I.ike a careless prodigal. Telling tales... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...poem, he says, — "Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Lot them live upon thoir praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will hare a place in story ; There's a flower that shall be mine, 'TU the little celandine." The Coltsfoot... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...forth at the first possible moment to make the pleasurable announcement, " Spring is coming !" — " Ere a leaf is on a bush, In the time before the thrush Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless prodigal... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1867 - 160 pages
...violet was the reward of the successful competitor ; so that Wordsworth might justly assert, — " Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story. " April also brings us the wild hyacinth, with its pyramid of bluebell-shaped flowers ; the heart's... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...THE SMALL CELANDINE. PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them li ve upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their...flower that shall be mine, ' Tis the little Celandine. Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star ; Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep... | |
 | 1869 - 182 pages
...(Co.MMON PILE WORT.) 1ANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their...flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; Up and down the heavens they go. Men that keep... | |
 | John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 pages
...: " Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there '» a snn that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long...there are violets, They will have a place in story : There 'sa flower that shall be mine, Tis the little celandine." Bright little golden stars, running... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter (fict.name.) - Children - 1870 - 168 pages
...poets from the days cf the Greeks down to our own more prosaic times. As Wordsworth says, — ' Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their...there are violets, They will have a place in story.' I fancy it must have been mentioned by almost every English poet, for in my common-place book I have... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1870 - 236 pages
...lilies, kingcups, dailies, Let them live upon their praifes ; Long as there's a fun that fets, Primrofes will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in ftory : There's a flower that fhall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. Eyes of fome men travel far... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...THB SMALL CELANDINE.' 1'AssiKH, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their...flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star ; Up and down the heavens they go, Hen that keep... | |
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PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little... 
