 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 1194 pages
...homes, upon crumbling tower*, Speaking of the past and present, Tell of the ancient glories of the flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their bright and foul-like wiu gg, Teaching u-, by most persuasive reason*, How akin they arc to human things.... | |
 | 1852 - 340 pages
...APRIL 4. All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. — 1 PETEB i. 24. IN all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, And with childlike, credulous affection, We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary. On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great... | |
 | Queenwood college - 1853 - 292 pages
...may reveal the hidden feelings, the sympathies and sufferings of the graceful forms which everywhere 'Expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching...persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things.' To all who can appreciate the 'joy' afforded by a 'thing of beauty,' it is pleasant thus to while away... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...the past unto the present, Tell us of the ancient graves of flowers. In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and sun-like... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tells us of the ancient games of Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 236 pages
...thought of us, and knew just how we felt; and so few do that, you know, mother." For in all places, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching ns, by most persuasive reasons. How akin they are to human things. What a bright afternoon that little... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1854 - 350 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...with child-like, credulous affection, We behold their lender buds expand ; — Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...the ancient Games of Flowers. In all places, then, aud in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great... | |
| |
In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. 
