 | Alfred Smee - 1872 - 750 pages
...airs ; Kt 1'arbrc aux pom tics d'or, aux ramoaux tonjonrs verts." CHAPTER X. GENKKAL h'LOWKK GAKDEX. " In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things." — LONGFELLOW. WE grow in the garden many kinds ot flowers, and select as many species of as many... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 pages
...flowers, of every class. Longfellow has beautifully said : — In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes whose crumbling towers, Speaking of the Past unto the Present, Tsll us of the ancient games of Flowers : In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 pages
...cathedrals, high and hoary, On the tombs of heroes, carved in stone ; In the cottage of the rudest peasant, i In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...unto' the Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flo\yers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, . Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings,... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...spring is born, Others with blue eyes, their tears o'erflowing, Stand, like Ruth, amid the goldeu corn. 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. Aud with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 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 soullike wings, And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1877 - 992 pages
...of an uniform shade if left to nature. Plants partake much in these respects of a similar character. "In all places then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things." Mr. Longfellow has here the poet's perception of a natural truth. Flowers pine in captivity as human... | |
 | Poets - 1877 - 300 pages
...believing this, Against His messengers to shut the door ? Charles Wolfe, 1761. "J/ie Two Angels. 15, In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand...most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human thiugs ; And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand, Emblems of our... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 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...Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers. In all planes, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-liko wings, Teaching us, by most... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 pages
...brave old Autumn's wearing, In the centre of his brazen shield. In the cottage of the rudest peasant, In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers, Speaking...the Past unto the Present, Tell us of the ancient Game of Flowers. Flowers. October 3. Peace ! Peace ! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer ! Descend with... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 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...Present, Tell us of the ancient Games of Flowers ; In nil places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soullike wings, Teaching us, by... | |
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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. 
