 | 1831 - 492 pages
...Tour,"* the above lines, it was thought, would not be out of place at this time. — Note to Editor.] 'TWAS a lovely thought, to mark the hours As they...the folding flowers That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose coloured vase might... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 228 pages
...marked the hours by the opening and closing, at regular intervals, of the flowers arranged in it." 'TwAS a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening of the folding flowers That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue And its... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...the o nged i , hours by the opening and closing, at regular intervals, of the flowers arranged in it" TWAS a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening of the folding flowers That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue And its... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1828 - 216 pages
...the hours by the opening and closing, at regular intervals, of the flowers arranged in it." TWAS n lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening of the folding flowers That laugh lo the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich has, And its... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1829 - 466 pages
...open and expand in the evening, between six and seven o'clock. The DIAL of FLOWERS. [By Mrs. Hemans.1 Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated...the folding flowers That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup or bell, In whose coloured vase might sleep... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...— But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart ! THE DIAL OF FLOWERS.* 'TwAs a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they...the folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue, And its graceful cup and bell, In whose coloured vase might... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...di«. 06 PLOWKRS. THE DIAL OP FLOWERS.s JIRs. НЕМАЯs. TWAS a lovely thought to murk the hoars As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flowers That langh to the summer's da>. Thus had each moment its own rich hue, And us graceful cop or hell, In whuse... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...unheeded rise ; The rose has but a summer-reign, The daisy never dies. THE DIAL OF FLOWERS.* MES. HEVANS. TWAS a lovely thought to mark the hours As they floated in light away, Sy the opening and the folding flowers That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 632 pages
...mimic art the march of time ;" «nd thus elegantly alluded to by FeKcia Hemam in her DIAL OF FLOWERS. " Twas a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and th« folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment its own rich hue And its... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 634 pages
...elegantly alluded to by Felicia Ilemans in her DIAL OF FLOWERS. " 'Twas a lovely thought tu ni.uk tlie hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding ilowcrs, That laugh to the summer's day. Thus had each moment ¡U own rich hue And its graceful cup... | |
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TwAs a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day. 
