The sentiment of flowers; or, Language of flora, by R. Tyas |
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admired adorn AGRIMONY almond amaranth ancient appearance bearing a white bloom blossom bowers branches bright calyx charms CLASS colour common cordate corolla crown cultivated cypress daisy deciduous delicate delight DICOTYLEDONES DIGYNIA drooping earth elegant emblem evergreen favourite floral flower from June flower in June foliage fragrant fruit garden garland grace green grow heart herbaceous plant HEXANDRIA ICOSANDRIA involucre jasmine July lanceolate leaf leaves are ovate lily Linco lobes mezereon MONOCOTYLEDONES MONOGYNIA myrtle nature o'er oblong odour ORDER ornamental deciduous ornamental evergreen panicle parterre Pasque Flower Paternoster Row peduncles PENTANDRIA perennial perfume petals petioles pink poet POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA pretty purple flower racemes Red Valerian root ROSACEE rose seeds segments serrated shade shrub smooth sorrow species spring stalked stem sweet SYNGENESIA ternate thee thorns thou tree TRIANDRIA Tyas umbel verdure vervain violet white flower wild woods wreath yellow flower young youth
Popular passages
Page 40 - All things to man's delightful use : the roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, Rear'd high their flourish'd heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature...
Page 218 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 116 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Page 274 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Page 235 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past...
Page 150 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
Page 229 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 330 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 202 - Sweet Daisy ! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming Common-place Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which Love makes for thee...
Page 330 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...