| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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