| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 sider
...sweet-peas, on tiptoe for a flight With wfoga of gentle flush o'er delicate white, Y 2 And taper fingere catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.' There is certainly considerable taste and sprightliness in some parts of this description, aní the... | |
| 1853 - 636 sider
...DICOTYLEDONS. SUB-CLASS II. CALYCIFLOR.E. Order XXII. Leguminosae, or the Pea Tribe. " HERE are sweet-peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush...things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. THIS large and most interesting order has representatives in almost every region of the temperate and... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 sider
...Flying-flowers ; and indeed they are always produced in the finest flower-gardens." " Here are sweet-peas 6n tip-toe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush,...things To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. In his Calendar of Nature Mr. Hunt speaks of Sweetpeas, as looking like butterflies turned to flowers.... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - 1825 - 516 sider
...Flying-flowers ; and indeed they are always produced in the finest flower-gardens." " Here are sweet-peas on tip-toe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush,...things To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. In his Calendar of Nature Mr. Hunt speaks of Sweetpeas, as looking like butterflies turned to flowers.... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 sider
...DELICATE PLEASURE. SWEET-PEA.—Lathyrus Odoratus. " Here are sweet-peas on tip-toe for a flight, The wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white, And taper...things To bind them all about with tiny rings." Keats. From the charms this flower displays both in fragrance and colour has arisen the emblem. " These delicacies,... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1829 - 442 sider
...Lathyrua Odoratus. Natural Order Papilionacei, or Lrguminosee. A Genus of the Diadclphia Decandria Class. Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper lingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. KEATS. THE Sweet Pea, the emblem... | |
| Young lady - 1829 - 542 sider
...and white Garden Pea (Lathyrus odoratus), which gardeners call the Painted Lady : — Here are iweet peas on tip-toe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white. Painted Lady is a name very commonly given to red and white flowers. Some of the Pinks are so called... | |
| Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1832 - 338 sider
...blue, lilac, rose, white, etc., all in the same flower. It is much cultivated by the market florists. Here are Sweet Peas, on tip-toe for a flight, With...wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper 6ngen catching at all things, To bind them all about, with tiny rings. Keats. PEACH BLOSSOM. (For Amygdalus,... | |
| Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 sider
...rose, white, etc., all in the same dower. It is much cultivated by the market florists. Here are tweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight, With wings of gentle...white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To blnd them all about, with tiny rings. Kcati. PEA, WlLD. VETCH, OE VtCtA. (See note on Pea, everlasting.)... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 sider
...vale," His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With «in; of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently... | |
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