 | Hugh Miller - 1873 - 464 pages
...sipp'd the silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physio not a few, „ Of gray renown, within those borders...shepherd's posie found, And lavender, whose spikes of azure-bloom Shall be erewhile in arid bundles bound, To lurk amid her labours of the loom, And crown... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...well she know, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. ؠ . . . sipp'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclosed a gaudy streak; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...well of each could epeak. That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew, Where no vain fiow'r dieclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use, and physic, not a...gray renown, within those borders grew ; The tufted baeil, pun-provoking thyme, Freeh bäum, and marygold of cheerful hue, The lowly gill, that never dares... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a mind which did that title love. ****** Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...streak, But herbs for use and physic, not a few Of grey renown, within those borders grew ; The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and marygold... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could exiNHiiid, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipped the silver)' dew ; Where no vain flower disclosed a gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic, not a... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...borders grew : The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme. Fresh baum, and marygold of cheerful hue ; The lowly gill, that never dares to climb ; And more I fain... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she foundHerbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in...disclosed a gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physie, not a few, Of gray renown, within those borders grew : The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak,...garden sipped the silvery dew; Where no vain flower disclos'da gawdy streak ; But herbs for use and physic not a few, Of grey renown, within those borders... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too -she knew, and well of each could speak...borders grew : The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and marygold of cheerful hue ; The lowly gill, that never dares to climb ; And more I fain... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1877 - 270 pages
...home, does not omit to notice the little plots of herbs that furnish the simple remedies of the poor. " Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipped the silv'ry dew, Where no vain flower disclosed a gaudy streak ;ls But herbs for use, and physic, not a... | |
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Neglect had lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. 
