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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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A Year of Sunshine: Cheerful Extracts for Every Day in the Year

Kate Sanborn - 1884 - 396 pages
...ourselves from Independence Day. I would muzzle the Fourth of July. "John Paul." 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. Keats, THE HUMMING-BIRD....
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 28

1886 - 922 pages
...While the patient primrose sits Like a beggar in the cold." — WORDSWORTH. " 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." — KEATS. " Bloomy...
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Half-hours with the Best American Authors, Volume 2

1886 - 528 pages
...watermelon and cucumber, in voluptuous play, sported over the beds like truant school-boys. " Here arc sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delieate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings."...
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Good Housekeeping Magazine, Volume 5

1887 - 356 pages
...comparison to the return ! A silver dime and a " nickel " in exchange for dozens of exquisite " Sweet peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white I " And each flower possessing a magic wand that invests the most simply furnished room with an air...
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Robert Elsmere

Mrs. Humphry Ward - 1888 - 624 pages
...sloping garden, on the village beyond, on the hedge of sweet peas close beside them, with its blooms ' On tiptoe for a flight. With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white.' 'Oh ! Oxford is countrified enough,' she said indifferently, moving down the broad grass-path which...
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ROBERT ELSMERE

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD - 1888 - 484 pages
...sloping garden, on the village beyond, on the hedge of sweet peas close beside them, with its blooms ' On tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white.' ' Oh! Oxford is countrified enough,' she said indifferently, moving down the broad grass-path which...
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Physiological Notes on Primary Education and the Study of Language

Mary Putnam Jacobi - 1889 - 138 pages
..." While the patient primrose sits Like a beggar in the cold." — WORDSWORTH. " 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." — KEATS. " Bloomy...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1889 - 610 pages
...cannot forget them again. The sweet peas, for instance, they keep on all day — ' " 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." It's pretty enough....
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Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young Or Old, who Cares to Read it

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1890 - 218 pages
...summer after summer, regardless of color harmonies. Last, but not least, there was a patch of sweet peas, " on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white." These dispensed their sweet odors so generously that it was a favorite diversion among the village...
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Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young Or Old, who Cares to Read it

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1890 - 220 pages
...summer after summer, regardless of color harmonies. Last, but not least, there was a patch of sweet peas, " on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate whitt." These dispensed their sweet odors so generously that it was a favorite diversion among the...
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