 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 Seiten
...whence I had come, That I might there present it — oh ! to whom ? THE DIAL OF FLOWERS. By Mrs. HEMANS. 'TwAs a lovely thought to mark the hours As they floated...own rich hue, And its graceful cup or bell, In whose colour'd vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. To such sweet signs might the time... | |
 | Mrs. Frances Sargent (Locke) Osgood - 1859 - 300 Seiten
...lines are by Mrs. Hemans. They celebrate the- far-famed dial of flowers constructed by Linnaeus. 'T was a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose coloured vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. To such sweet... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1859 - 230 Seiten
...though the best of them are over now. I heard of a florist who once made a sort of dial of his flowers. 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flowera, That laugh to the Summer's day I Alan Hands has kindly given each of us a flower, but they... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 Seiten
...constructed — tables in which every hour of the day is filled up by the opening of some flower. 17. " '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." lit MANS. 18.... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1860 - 82 Seiten
...regulating the labors of husbandry, according to the opening of blossoms upon plants at their stated times. 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose colored vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shell. To such sweet... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 Seiten
...— tables in which every hour of the day is filled up by the opening of some flower. 17. " 'Tvvas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated...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." HEMANS. 18. In... | |
 | Wild flowers - 1861 - 156 Seiten
...above-mentioned, and which is pleasingly associated with the memory of the Swedish naturalist : — " "Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day. Thus has each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup or bell, In whose colour' d vasti might sleep... | |
 | Jane Williams - 1861 - 580 Seiten
...such an eloquent exponent arisen. THE DIAL OF FLOWERS. " 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours Aa they floated in light away, By the opening and the...summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue, A ad its graceful cup and bell, lu whoso coloured vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 Seiten
...1755. Mrs Hemans' pretty lines on this subject may probably recur to the mind of the reader : — " 'Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...By the opening and the folding flowers That laugh in the summer's day. Yet is not life, in its real flight, Mark'd thus — even thus — on earth, By... | |
 | Frances Sargent Locke Osgood - 1863 - 310 Seiten
...lines are by Mrs. Hemans. They celebrate the far-famed dial of flowers constructed by Linnaeus. 'T was a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated...each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose coloured vase might sleep the dew, Like a pearl in an ocean-shellTo 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. 
