 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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 silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she founi e. Sir. My best life ! at leisure all. Isa. We thought...dead ; killed at the siege of Candy. Sir. There I Fresh balm, and marygold of chearful hue : The lowly gill, that never dares to climb ; And more I fain... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she founc e fall under the will of others. Whatever is best...Such is this great and beautiful work of nature — pun provoking thyme, Fresh balm, and marygold of chearful hue : The lowly gill, that never dares to... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, 90 What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...streak; But herbs for use, and physic, not a few, 9S Of grey renown, within those borders grew : The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, 90 What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...streak ; But herbs for use, and physic, not a few, 95 Of grey renown, within those borders grew : The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and... | |
 | Otto Daniel - 1908 - 106 pages
...could expound What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb sh. f. Hinter X folgende neue Strophen: X a. 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 shreak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 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,... | |
 | Katharine Tynan, Frances Maitland - 1909 - 348 pages
...And we have heard it called Mother-Wort and Brother-Wort. Shenstone's Schoolmistress knew herbs : " And well of each could speak That in her garden sipped the silvery dew, When no vain flower disclosed a gaudy streak But Herbs for use and physic, not a few Of gay renown,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1176 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. 45 Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak,...not a few, Of gray renown, within those borders grew : so The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh balm, and marigold of cheerful hue: The lowly gill,... | |
 | Frances Anne Bardswell - 1911 - 258 pages
...Herb this 1 PERENNIAL KITCHEN HERBS POT MARJORAM, PINK AND WHITE CHAPTER VI PERENNIAL KITCHEN HERBS ' Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak,...streak, But herbs for use, and physic not a few.' OUR nine most useful perennial kitchen Herbs are: Mint, Mentha viridis ; Sage, Salvia officinalis ;... | |
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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. 
