 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 290 páginas
...at regular intervals, of the flowers arranged in it TT1 WAS a lovely thought to mark the hours, J- As they floated in light away, By the opening and...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose colored vase might sleep the dew, To such sweet signs might the time have flowed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 474 páginas
...well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers?" 318 " 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...light away, By the opening and the folding flowers, As they laugh to the summer's day. * Thus had each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and... | |
 | Catherine Ann Warfield - 1877 - 436 páginas
...what some poet has told us of a flowerdial— Mrs. Hemafts, 1 WvaVl tnai ._ " ' 'Twas a lovely thing to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the closing flowers That laugh to the smile of day.' Yon have enlarged this record — made it for months,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1878 - 696 páginas
...; But the noblest thing which perish'd there Was that young faithful heart ! THE DIAL OF FLOWERS.3 'TWAS a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose colour'd vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. To such sweet... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...all kinds diffused their od'rous pow'rs, Where nature pencils butterflies on flow'rs. WALTER HARTE. Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flow'rs That laugh to the summer's day. MRS. HEMANS. Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away... | |
 | 1880 - 208 páginas
...beings of reality and inheritors of eternity. —Nathaniel Hawthorne. XC.—THE DIAL OF THE FLOWERS. 'TWAS a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose color'd vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. Yet is not life,... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 338 páginas
...husbandry by the appearance of the blossoms of plants. Mrs. Hemans has said in one of her poems:— " 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours As they floated...the folding flowers That laugh to the summer's day." 6. Linnaeus held his professorship thirty-seven years, and about the close of this period he published... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 296 páginas
...beautiful things to look upon, in the garden and in the field, during the greater part of the year. 11. 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...By the opening and the folding flowers That laugh in the summer's day. By the closing of one hope's delight And another's gentle birth ? 13. Oh! let... | |
 | 1880 - 488 páginas
...There are many woodcuts, and the coloured " Floral Dial" is very pretty. Mrs. Hemans writes ; — 'Twos a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By their opening and their folding flowers, That laugh to the summer day. At three o'clock in the morning... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1881 - 578 páginas
...noblest thing which perishec there Was that young faithful heart ! THE DIAL OF FLOWERS.1 TWAS a lonely thought to mark the hours As they floated in light...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell [n whose colored vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. To such sweet signs... | |
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TwAs a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day. 
