I've strayed in youthful dream, Plucking the columbine. O, I will sing of flowers — a theme, For loftiest pen to dwell ; How faint must weaker efforts seem Their charms divine to tell. €* Where is the hand would crush a flower Unheedful of its worth... Leisure Thoughts, in Prose and Verse - Page 61by Thomas Palmer Moses - 1849 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 pages
...and sweet pea, With lustre shine in garden bowers, As stars shine on the sea. Nature in loveliness appears, To gladden every mind; She may dispel our...youthful dream. Plucking the columbine. O, I will sing of (lowers — a theme For loftiest pen to dwell ; How faint must weaker efforts seem Their charms divine... | |
| Marilyn Reid - 2007 - 122 pages
...damask rose and myrtle flowers, Narcissus and sweet pea, As stars shine on the sea. Nature in loveliness appears, To gladden every mind; She may dispel our...sighs and tears; True joys in her we find. 'Tis noon - 1 rest by purling stream, Where grows the ivy vine; Here oft I've strayed in youthful dream, Plucking... | |
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