| John B. Newman - 1850 - 246 oldal
...meaning butterfly. Here is a Sweet Pea blossom, in allusion to the shape of which Keats remarked : Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white. This large piece on top covering the others is called the standard or banner, a; you will notice as... | |
| John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 oldal
...that 'tis ever startled by the leap Of buds into fresh flowers." And those most exquisitely described Sweet Peas— "On tiptoe for a flight, With wings...taper fingers, catching at all things, To bind them round about with tiny rings." Nor may we forget the Lilac, by Cowper chronicled, — " Various 1n array,—... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 548 oldal
...are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : Wilh wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And laper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon ноте bending planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 oldal
...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...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. What next ? a turf of evening primroses, O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes ; O'er which it... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 oldal
...haply wisen 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...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. What next ? a turf of evening primroses, O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes ; O'er which it... | |
| 1854 - 630 oldal
...many scenes in Spenser, Crabbe, or Keats. How he would have illustrated such a scene as this : — " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With...white, And taper fingers, catching at all things, THE MILKWOMAN. — FROM A PAINTING BY JBAN BAPTISTE KUBT. fully in our life of David. Huet has been... | |
| 1851 - 388 oldal
...laugh at our simplicity, and yet I think we were not unwise in our choice. Our favorite flowers were " Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers, clinging at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." Perhaps I taught my dear Effie to... | |
| 1854 - 478 oldal
...would have illustrated such a scene as this : — • " Here arc sweet peas, on tiptoe for a Hight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers, catching at all thing«, THE MILKWOMAN. — PROM A PAINTING BY JBAN BAPTISTE HUBT. fully in our life of David. Huet... | |
| 185? - 660 oldal
...many scenea in Spenser, Crabbe, or Keats. How he would have illustrated such a scene as this : — " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle Hush o'er delicate while, And taper fingers, catching at all things, THE MILKWOMAN. — FROM A PAINTING... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 oldal
...world of 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...planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, 206 NEW-YORK INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND. And watch intent! v Nature's gentle doings : Thej will be found... | |
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