 | 1853 - 640 páginas
...Order XXII. Leguminosae, or the Pea Tribe. " HERE are sweet-peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. THIS large and most interesting order has representatives... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 páginas
...always produced in the finest flower-gardens." " Here are sweet-peas 6n tip-toe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things To bind them all about with tiny rings." KEATS. In his Calendar of Nature Mr. Hunt speaks of Sweetpeas,... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 páginas
...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 fingers catching at all things To bind them all about with tiny rings." Keats. From the charms this flower displays both in fragrance... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 páginas
...are beautifully rich in coloringDEPARTURE. Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Keats. SENTIMENT. I must go o'er the sea to other lands ; It... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1836 - 434 páginas
...the same flower, very fragrant. DEPARTURE. Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. KEATS. SENTIMENT. I must go o'er the sea to other lands : It... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1838 - 282 páginas
...the same flower, very fragrant. DEPARTURE. Here are Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers, catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. SENTIMENT. I must go o'er the sea to other lands: It is the... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 páginas
...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 catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a... | |
 | John Keats - 1841 - 254 páginas
...blisses : So haply when I rove in some far vale, Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 páginas
...sight, smell, herbs, fruit, and flowers. MILTON. HERE are sweet-peas on tip-toe for a flight, The wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things To bind them all about with tiny rings. ILLUSTRATION OF THE PLATE. Narcissus. — Clinging Vine. Self-love... | |
 | George William Francis - 1844 - 278 páginas
...towards the light and air, as Keats says : — Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight. With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white. And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them close about with tiny rings. GREAT-FLOWERED EVERLASTING PEA. L. grandiflorus. Leaflets... | |
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Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. 
