 The stooping lilies of the valley, That love with shades and dews to dally, And bending droop on slender threads, With broad hood-leaves above their heads, Like white-robed maids, in summer hours, Beneath umbrellas shunning showers. His epithets strengthen...  Wild Flowers - Page 61by Anne Pratt - 1853Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...teems with sweet herbs, and tiny flowers, of exquisite beauty.— The blue-bells too, that quickly t be sorry to white-robed maids, in summer hours, Beneath umbrellas, shunning showers ; — These, from the bark-men's... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...exquisite beauly. — The blue-bells too, that quickly bloom Where man was never known (o come ; Anil stooping lilies of the valley. That love with shades...threads, With broad hood-leaves above their heads, bike white-robud maids, in summctr hour», Beneath umbrellas, shunning showers ; — These, from the... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 pages
...teems with sweet herbs, and tiny flowers, of exquisite beauty. — The blue-bells too, that quickly bloom Where man was never known to come ; And stooping lilies of the valley, That love with shades and clews to dally, And bending droop on slender threads, With broad hood-leaves above their heads. Like... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 854 pages
...— The bine-bells too, that quickly bloom Where man was never known to come ; And stooping lilie* of the valley. That love with shades and dews to dally. And bending droop on Blender threads, With broad hood-leave* above their heads, Like white-robed maids, in summer honra,... | |
 | 1869 - 184 pages
...fragrance dwells ! Thy breath, so delicately sweet, Soon leads us to thy loved retreat. LILY OF THE VALLEY. STOOPING Lilies of the Valley, That love with shades and dews to dally, And tending low on slender threads With broad hood leaves above their heads. Like white. robed maids in... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1907 - 602 pages
...melancholy cry, Through the wild journey of the cheerless sky ; or, in May, sees in a quaint figure The stooping lilies of the valley, That love with shades...dally, And bending droop on slender threads, With broad hood- leaves above their heads, Like white-robed maids, in summer hours, Beneath umbrellas shunning... | |
 | John Clare - 1908 - 216 pages
...melancholy cry, Through the wild journey of the cheerless sky ; or, in May, sees in a quaint figure The stooping lilies of the valley, That love with shades...threads, With broad hood-leaves above their heads, Like white-robed maids, in summer hours, Beneath umbrellas shunning showers. His epithets strengthen and... | |
 | John Clare - 1908 - 216 pages
...melancholy cry, Through the wild journey of the cheerless sky ; or, in May, sees in a quaint figure The stooping lilies of the valley, That love with shades...threads, With broad hood-leaves above their heads, Like white-robed maids, in summer hours, Beneath umbrellas shunning showers. His epithets strengthen and... | |
 | 1907 - 552 pages
...melancholy cry, Through the wild journey «f the cheerless sky ; or, in May, sees in a quaint figure The stooping lilies of the valley, That love with shades...threads, With broad hood-leaves above their heads, Like white-robed maids, in summer hours, Beneath umbrellas shunning showers. His epithets strengthen and... | |
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