THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and... The Playmate: A Pleasant Companion for Spare Hoursby Joseph Cundall - 1847 - 200 pagesSnippet view - About this book
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. A FIELD FLOWER. On finding one on Christmas Day. There is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest...welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours... | |
| James Montgomery - 1881 - 618 pages
...With every annual cup is fraught. A FIELD FLOWER. ON FINDING ONE IN FULL BLOOM ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1803. THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest...welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours... | |
| James Montgomery - 1881 - 535 pages
...shall it cease to feel again I A FIELD FLOWER. ON FINDING ONE IN FULL BLOOM, ON CHRISTMAS-DAY 1803 THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest...welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours... | |
| Child-life - 1881 - 112 pages
...rising sun, And closes when he sinks below the horizon, 'Tis fitly called the eye of day or day's eye. " There is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest...welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field, In gay, but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours... | |
| 1881 - 882 pages
...flowers. But James Montgomery wrote few lines more sweet and true than those simple syllables : "Thero is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest, and...-welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise ; The rose lias but a summer rtign,... | |
| John Charles Wright - English language - 1882 - 188 pages
...quarrel about their blessings till they lose them, when they discover their foolishness. M Ex. 81. — There is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest...every sky. It smiles upon the lap of May, To sultry August spreads its charms, Lights pale October on its way, And twines December's arms. N Ex. 82. —... | |
| Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...the daisy, peeping. x. MotrraoMEBY — the Valentine Wreath. FLOWERS-DAIST. FLOWEBS-DANDELION. 139 at should > Tis Flora's page;— in every place, In every season fresh and fair; It opens with perennial grace,... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...the daisy, peeping. I х. MONTGOMERY — Ike Valentine Wreath, FLO WERS- DANDELION. 139 There i» л flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden...welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. • • • * * V Ты Flora's page;— in every place, In ever}' seu-son fresh niul lair; It opens... | |
| Edmund Arthur Helps - 1882 - 262 pages
...grey. She rode till she came to her father's hall, Three hours before it was day. 52 A FIELD FLOWER. THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, Old Ballad. That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. 4 The prouder beauties of the... | |
| Frederick Bryon Norman - 1883 - 162 pages
...small in quantity or extent. It is also used in the sense of contemptible; weak; inconsiderate. Ex.: There is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest...welcomes every changing hour And weathers every sky. (The Daisy.) If a boaster knew how little he often appears in the eyes of others, he would leave off... | |
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