Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles, that, in dewy splendor, " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," O, may I... A Flora of Leicestershire. ... By M. Kirby. With Notes by Her Sister [S ... - Pagina xidi Mary Kirby - 1850 - 12 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1842 - 634 pagine
...aisles, or, stretch M upon the sod, Awed by the silence, reverently ponder The ways of God. — Your voiceless lips, O flowers! are living preachers —...to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendour ' Weep without love, and blush without a crime,' Oh, may I... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pagine
...stretched upon the sod, Awed by the silence, reverently ponder The ways of God. Your vowless lips, oh Flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous wonders From loneliest nook. Floral apostles ! that in dewy splendour Weep without woe, and blush without... | |
| Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 264 pagine
...green aisles, or stretched upon the sod, Awed by the silence, reverently ponder The ways of God, Your voiceless lips, O flowers ! are living preachers,...to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Here I, O God ! in churchless lands remaining, Far from all voice of teachers and divines, Fail not... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...The ways of God — Your voiceless lips. O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy, numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor "Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," O may I deeply... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pagine
...image of the decay and imbecility of old age ! In the beautiful language of an English poet, — Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each...cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth, And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth j A call to prayer ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 270 pagine
...image of the decay and imbecility of old age ! In the beautiful language of an English poet,— ' Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each...numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. 'Neath cloistered toughs each floral bell that sw ingeth. And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in... | |
| 1839 - 606 pagine
...ways of God: Your voiceless tips, oh flowers ! яго living preacher«, Euch cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook! Floral ano*t)rsl that in dewy splendor. Weep without ein, and blush without a crinie. Oh may I deeply... | |
| Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - 1841 - 250 pagine
...aisles, or stretched upon the sod, Awed by the silence, reverently ponder The ways of God.— Your voiceless lips, O flowers ! are living preachers,...to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles ! that, in dewy splendour, " Weep without wo, and blush without a crime," Oh ! may... | |
| William Baxter - 1840 - 348 pagine
...temple tesselate, What numerous emblems of instructive duty Your forms create ! Your voiceless lips, О Flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit,...to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral Apostles ! that, in dewy splendour, " Weep without woe, and blush without a erime," Oh' may... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth - 1842 - 342 pagine
...PREACHING OF FLOWERS. Your voiceless lips, O flowers, arc living preachers, Each cup a pulpiti—every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. 'Ncatli cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth, And tolls its perfume on the passing air,... | |
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