A HORTICULTURAL ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. " What sweet thoughts she thinks Of violets and pinks." L. HUNT. " Each flower of tender stalk whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping, unsustained, them she upstays. The Works of Thomas Hood...: Prose works - Page 325by Thomas Hood - 1861Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1835 - 342 pages
...stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round 426 About her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping unsustain'd; them she upstays 430 Gently with myrtle band, mindless... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 510 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping unsustain'd ; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Young women - 1839 - 386 pages
...innocence and bliss;—he describes her, " Veiled in a cloud of fragrance— ■ oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1840 - 572 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, 430 Hung drooping unsustain'd; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses hlushing round Ahout her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, 430 Hung drooping unsustain'd; them she upstays Gently with myrtle hand, mindless... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping, unsustain'd ; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless... | |
| Garden flowers - Flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...she stood Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glowed ; oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay,...purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping, unsustafned. The rose is much cultivated both in Egypt and Syria. It is in many parts of the Holy Land... | |
| G T F.S. Barlow Speede - 1848 - 928 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round Ahout her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping unsusta'm'd ; them she upstays Gentle with myrtle hand." —and truly... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 474 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping, unsustain'd; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the... | |
| John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glow'd, oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping unsustain'd ; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the... | |
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