 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...paradises are in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flowers and herbs th' industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...foot, Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs doea glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings. Then...such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herba and flowers ?"• The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1851 - 596 pages
...Paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone! How well the skillful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new: Where, from above, the milder sun Does...run: And as it works the industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours, Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gardener drew. Of flowers and herbs, this dial new ! Where, from above, the milder sun...flowers ? • The artificial fountains of the metropolis aro, in like manner, fast vanishing. Most of them are dried up or bricked over. Yet, where one is left,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...Paradises are in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flowers and herbs, this dial new : Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : THE GARDEN. 41 And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. I How could... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 714 pages
...sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes its time a» well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers ! [AW/iimtical Satire on Holland.*] Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th' off-scouring... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flow'rs and herbs the dial new, Where from above the milder sun Does through...run: And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes the time, as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned, but with herbs and flowers.... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pages
...milder sun Docs through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd but with herbs and flowers ? Sjyofotr. Mn. ffeman*. "VTOW the lucid tears of May Gem the blossoms of the spray ; Every leaf and... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...Garden'' mentions a sort of floral dial : — How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new ! Where, from above, the milder sun...through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes its time as well as we : How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gardener drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new ! Where, from above, the milder sun...as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned, but with herbs and flowers ?* The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner,... | |
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