| Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...nought of pretension it seeks. to presume, Tho' gay are its flow'rets, the bright bonny broom. 87 Sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Keats. 88 The hollyhock,... | |
| John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...blisses : So haply when I rove in some far vale, His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...So haply when I rove in some far vale, His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet-peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. What next ? a turf... | |
| 1855 - 682 pages
...melon and cucumber, m voluptuous play, sported over the beds like truant school-boys. " Hero are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o:er doliente white, And taper fingers catching at nil things, To bind them all about with tiny ringe."... | |
| Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1856 - 348 pages
...voluptuous play, sported over the beds like truant school-boys. PLANNING A GARDEN. 83 " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." " Now," said I,... | |
| Frederic Swartwout Cozzens - 1856 - 342 pages
...cucumber, in voluptuous play, sported over the beds like truant school-boys. "Here are sweet peas, ou tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." "Now," said I, "Mrs.... | |
| 1857 - 474 pages
...call the Painted Lady: — Here are sweet peas on lip toe for a flight ; With wings of gentle Hush o'er delicate white. Painted Lady is a name very commonly...called ; and one of the Pelargoniums; I think the tri-colour. Look at tins Tulip-tree; it bears a very strange title; — the Tulip-bearing Lily-tree... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...blisses : So haply when I rove in some far vale, His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon... | |
| 1857 - 298 pages
...So haply when I rove in some far vale, His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet-peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. What next ? A turf... | |
| 1859 - 148 pages
...haply when I rove in some far vale, His mighty voice may come upon the gale. faere are sweet £eas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. \ Linger awhile upon... | |
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