 | John Keats - 1891 - 246 pages
...: So haply when I rove in some far vale, 53 His mighty voice may come upon the gale. 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. 60 Linger awhile... | |
 | 1891 - 708 pages
...heart, which was sure to be a conspicious feature of country posyyards, and is felicitously described as "on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white." In addition to this pink pea, there are thirty other distinct varieties, all trained to high wire trellises,... | |
 | Elfrida Mary Crowley - 1892 - 98 pages
...intensest pleasure he had received in life was in watching the growth of flowers,— " 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." Wordsworth, whose... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - 1893 - 704 pages
...long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " 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." And these flowers... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...touches are often accurate enough for science, and free and pictorial enough for poetry. " 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." Or this by... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...touches are often accurate enough for science, and free and pictorial enough for poetry. " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper ringers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." Or this by a "streamlet's... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...touches are often accurate enough for science, and free and pictorial enough for poetry. " 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." Or this by a "streamlet's... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...touches are often accurate enough for science, and free and pictorial enough for poetry. " 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." Or this by a "streamlet's... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1895 - 564 pages
...long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " 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." And these flowers... | |
 | American Library Association - 1895 - 300 pages
...long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " 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." And these flowers... | |
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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. 
