 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 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 1 fain... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 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...a few, Of gray renown, within those borders grew: Thetufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and marygold of cheerful hue; The lowly gill, that... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 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...flower disclosed a gaudy streak; But herbs for use, and physie, not a few, Of gray renown, within those borders grew: The tufted basil, pun-provnkingthyme,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pages
...For 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 in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 620 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found XI. Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew ; Where no vain flow'r disclosed a gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 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 in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew. Where no vain flow'r disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use, and physie,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 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....for use and physic not a few, Of gray renown, within these borders grew,— The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme. Fresh balm, and marygold of cheerful... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...revere : 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 In her garden sipp'd the silver)' dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da fiaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic,... | |
 | Arthur Shadwell Martin - 1896 - 298 pages
...works." He certainly succeeded, i"or many of the verses have the unmistakable ring of true parody. Herbs too she knew and well of each could speak That in her garden sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flow'r disclosed a gawdy streak ; But herbs for use and physick,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 682 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....for use and physic not a few, Of gray renown, within these borders grew, — The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh balm, and marygold of cheerful... | |
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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. 
