 | Bookbinding, Victorian - 1861 - 182 pages
...amorous threat ; The lily, paler than the moon, The odorous, wondrous month of June. Yet more — the Violet. She comes — the first, the fairest thing,...screen. And gives, as angels give, unseen, — So, love, the Violet. A WISH. What modest thoughts the Violet teaches, What gracious boons the Violet preaches,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...mossy stone Half hidden from the eye, Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. WORDSWORTH. She comes, the first, the fairest thing That heaven...leafy screen, And gives, as angels give, unseen ; So, love — the violet. — BARRY CORNWALL. Sweet tiny flower of darkly hue, Lone dweller in the pathless... | |
 | 1869 - 182 pages
...With a sweet chime tells. Miss LANDON. THE hyacinth for constancy, Wi' its unchanging blue. BURNS. THE VIOLET. SHE comes— the first, the fairest thing...leafy screen, And gives as angels give — unseen — The violet. BARRY CORNWALL. r A BOY'S SONG. THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. j| HERE the pools are bright... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - Children's literature - 1877 - 992 pages
...Violet, by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye." Barry Cornwall says this lovely thing about the violet : " She comes, the first, the fairest thing That heaven upon the earth doth fling, Eire winter's star has set; She dwells behind her leafy screen, And gives as angels give, unseen, —... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pages
...amorous threat ; The lily paler than the moon, The odorous, wondrous world of June, Yet more — the violet ! She comes, the first, the fairest thing That...upon the earth doth fling, Ere Winter's star has set ; E * She dwells behind her leafy screen, And gives, as angels give, unseen, So, love — the violet.... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1875 - 216 pages
...flesh color, richly veined with rose, bearing its pretty clusters of flowers upon the leaf-stem. The Violet— • " She comes, the first, the fairest thing That Heaven upon the earth doth fling E'er winter's star has set! She dwells beneath the leafy screen, And gives, as angels give, unseen.... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1875 - 214 pages
...flesh color, richly veined with rose, bearing its pretty clusters of flowers upon the leaf-stem. The Violet— '• She comes, the first, the fairest thing That Heaven upon the earth doth fling K'cr winters star has set! She dwells beneath the leafy screen, And gives, as angels give, unseen.... | |
 | Children's literature - 1877 - 456 pages
...about the jKu§: rf n^. ttCrif- *K- v»y -teaf-. _"£»>_ _~ ~_ ..'iBi1-. _?*?_ _'iAi'_ .. *,. — , . She comes, the first, the fairest thing That heaven...her leafy screen, And gives as angels give, unseen, — The violet." *he New England flowers appear few and far ben at first, as if they dreaded the east... | |
 | Margaret Plues - Botany - 1879 - 422 pages
...and Shakespeare honours them with his notice. But Barry Cornwall is warmest in their praise : — ' ' She comes the first, the fairest thing That heaven upon the earth doth fling, Ere winter star hath set : She dwells behind her leafy screen And gives, as angels give, unseen — So... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...amorous threat; The lily paler than the moon, The odorous, wondrous world of June, Yet more — the Violet ! She comes, the first, the fairest thing That...Heaven upon the earth doth fling, Ere Winter's star is set : She dwells behind her leafy screen, And gives, as angels give, unseen, So, love — the Violet... | |
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On whose soft lips the south wind blows In pretty, amorous threat ; The lily paler than the moon, The odorous, wondrous world of June, Yet more — the violet ! " She comes, the first, the fairest thing That Heaven upon the earth doth fling, Ere Winter's... 
