 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...fevers revel through their azure veins. But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves. Drooping all night ; and, when he warm returns, 218 Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray. Home, from his morning task, the swain retreats ; His flock... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pages
...sunflower, sportively." THE SUNFLOWER. THOMSON. THE loft follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night, and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray. TO THE SUNFLOWER. PRIDE of the garden, the beauteous, the regal, The crowned... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...fevers revel through their azure veins. But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sits, shuts bosom to his ray. Home, from his morning task, the swain retreats His flock before him stepping to... | |
 | James Thomson - 1877 - 112 pages
...fevers revel through their azure veins. But one, the lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night ; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamored bosom to his ray. Home, from his morning task, the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping... | |
 | Richard Chandler Alexander Prior - 1879 - 332 pages
...Thomson expresses in the lines : " But one, the lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night, and, when he warm returns, Points her enainour'd bosom to his ray." Summer, 1. 216. Helianthus annuus, L. also in some herbals, from its... | |
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...fevers revel through their azure veins. But one, the lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night ; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray. Home, from his morning task, the swain retreats : His flock before him... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...touching all things with hues of heaven. SUNFLOWEB. The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night ; and when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray. Thomson, Summer, 216. SUNDAY— see Sabbath. E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...4997 John Donne : The Sun-Rising. SUNFLOWER. The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and when he warm returns, Points her enamor'd bosom to his ray. 4998 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 210 Light enchanted sunflower, thou... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 pages
...us that unlike most of the flowery race — " The lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night, and, when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray." formed when, heart-broken at the desertion of her lover Phoebus, she remained rooted... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1889 - 378 pages
...latter being thus described by Thomson — " The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night, and, when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray." Another plant of this kind is the endive, which is said to open its petals at eight... | |
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But one the lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray. 
