 | 1863 - 594 pages
...grave." It might be said of thousands. " Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed ; TTp there camo a flower, The people said, a weed. To and fro they went, Thro' my garden bower ; And, mattering discontent, Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall, It wore a crown of light, But... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - English poetry - 1864 - 240 pages
...and cave and tree, The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. THE FLOWER. ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The...people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1864 - 1864 - 200 pages
...and cave and tree, The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. THE FLOWEE. ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The...people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 554 pages
...suggestive and interesting things in the present volume : — "THE FLOWER. " Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, — The people said, a weed. " To and fro they went, Through my garden bower, And muttering discontent, Cursed me and my flower. " Then it grew so tall,... | |
 | 1864 - 722 pages
...medicine, that system of which, were Hahnemann to reappear among us, he might say : " Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed, Up there came a flower The people called a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden bower, And muttering discontent, Cursed me and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...and cave and tree, The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. THE FLOWER. ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The...people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 414 pages
...and cave and tree, The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. THE FLOWER. ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The...people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. 24 Then it grew ao tall It wore a crown... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 590 pages
...Flower," says gracefully of himself what others have often said of him, — " Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed ; Up there came a flower. The people said a weed. To and fro they went Through my garden bower. And muttering discontent,— Coned me and my flower. Then it grew BO tall,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...and cave and tree, The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. THE FLOWER. ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The...people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. - 1868 - 342 pages
...by rock and cave and tree, THE FLOWER. ONCE in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there carne a flower, The people said, a weed. To and fro they went Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my ilower. Thon it grew so tall It wore a crown... | |
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And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown of light, But thieves from o'er the wall Stole the seed by night. Sow'd it far and wide By every town and tower, Till all the people cried, ,,Splendid is the flower. 
