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" Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe 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. "
The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits - Page 45
by Young lady - 1829 - 504 pages
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The drawing-room sibyl (poetical extracts).

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,...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

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...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

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...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 6

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."...
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The Sparrowgrass Papers: Or, Living in the Country

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,...
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The Sparrowgrass Papers: Or, Living in the Country

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....
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Manual of the Arts, for Young People: Or, A Present for All Seasons

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...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

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...
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Rhymes and Roundelayes in Praise of a Country Life: Adorned with Many Pictures

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...
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Poetry of the Year: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons ...

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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