How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and LeafMacmillan, 1905 - 340 Seiten |
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Seite xvii - My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Seite 96 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
Seite 37 - In ellum-shrouds the flashin' hang-bird clings An' for the summer vy'ge his hammock slings; All down the loose-walled lanes in archin' bowers The barb'ry droops its strings o' golden flowers, Whose shrinkin' hearts the school-gals love to try With pins,— they'll worry yourn so, boys, bimeby!
Seite vi - Forever faithful and utterly true, Fickle and faithless never. Plant lilies and lilies will bloom; Plant roses and roses will grow; Plant hate and hate to life will spring; Plant love and love to you will bring The fruit of the seed you sow.
Seite 125 - Is it not a reproach that so much that is beautiful is poisonous to us ? But why should they not be poisonous ? Would it not be bad taste to eat these berries which are ready to feed another sense ? Sept. 27, 1852. PM To C. Smith's Hill. The flashing clearness of the atmosphere. More light appears to be reflected from the earth, less absorbed. At Saw Mill Brook many finely cut and flat ferns are faded whitish and very handsome, as if pressed...