 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1849 - 296 pages
...some far burning clime, May oft retrace the youthful time Spent in your native meadqws. And God sent flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer man's careful mood ; And he is happiest who has power To gather wisdom from a flower, And wake his heart in every hour To wholesome gratitude.... | |
 | William Baxter - 1840 - 348 pages
...Germany, of tickling their nostrils with the spikelets of this grass, until they draw blood. '* i GOD made flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer man's careful...wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude." At/ienetum. fi -.. •' '< A'RCTIUM *. Linn. Class Sf Order. SYNGENE'SIA f, POLYGA'MIA, ^ Natural Order.... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...God made the flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer maYs careful mood. And he is happiest who bath power To gather wisdom from a flower, And wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude." — WORDSWORTH. It is only in contemplations such as these, that we can hope to obtain true happiness;... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1847 - 418 pages
...deepening shadows, And yc, in some far burning clime, May oft retrace the youthful time And God sent flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer man's careful mood ; And he is happiest who has power To gather wisdom from a flower, And wake his heart in every hour To wholesome gratitude.... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 pages
...stones, and good in every thing." Or, as a graceful living poetess has sung : " He is happiest who has power To gather wisdom from a flower, And wake his heart in every hour To wholesome gratitude." Among the various branches of knowledge, few were pursued with greater ardour... | |
 | 1848 - 886 pages
...satiations wherewith they are connected, bearing in mind, the while, the lesson taught by Wordsworth, that 'God made the flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer...mood; And he is happiest who hath power To gather wiiwlom from a flower, And wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude. 1 The Rose is generally... | |
 | 1852 - 354 pages
...then are her sweetest odours poured forth ; then it is we are most ready to sing with Wordsworth : " God made the flowers to beautify The earth and cheer...wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude." Then it is when " pleasant gratitude" rises most spontaneously to the Author of all good for the richly-varied... | |
 | 1853 - 630 pages
...then are her sweetest odors poured forth ; then it is we are most ready to sing with Wordsworth : " God made the flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer...wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude." Then it is when " pleasant gratitude," rises most spontaneously to the Author of all good for the richly-varied... | |
 | British flora - 1855 - 176 pages
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God made the flowers to beautify The earth, and cheer man's careful mood; And he is happiest who has power To gather wisdom from a flower, And wake his heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude. 
