 Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles, that, in dewy splendor, " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," O, may I...  A Flora of Leicestershire - Page 1by Mary Kirby - 1850 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...As a libation ! Your voiceless lips, 0 flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook ! " Thou wast not, Solomon, in all thy glory, Arrayed," the lilies cry, " in robes like ours ! How... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...they are to human things. LONGFELLOW. Your voiceless lips, O Flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. — HORACE SMITH. Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of His unrivalled... | |
 | 1868 - 638 pages
...EMG asks the author of the lines — ' Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book. Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From lowliest nook.' AH, where to find — ' Commit their pure souls to their Captain, Christ.' O. asks... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...Its dome the sky. Your voiceless lips, O Flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. " Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory, Arrayed," the lilies cry, " in robes like ours; How vain... | |
 | New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb - Deaf - 1869 - 698 pages
...of Horace Smith : " Yonr voiceless Hps, O (lowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book. Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook." and again "Were I, 0 God I in chnrchless hinds remaining, Far from all voice of teachers or ill vines,... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 pages
...the chorus, " God is Love." FLOWERS. YOUR voiceless lips, O flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. 'Neath cloister'd boughs, each floral bell, that swingeth, And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...reverently ponder The ways of God, — Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles, that, in dewy splendor, " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," O, may I deeply... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...reverently ponder The ways of God, Your voiceless lips, 0 flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves. Of pine, Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendor " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," 0, may I deeply... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - English poetry - 1871 - 444 pages
...reverently ponder The ways of God, Your voiceless lips, 0 Flowers ! are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendour " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," 0 may I deeply... | |
 | New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb - Deaf - 1871 - 370 pages
...Horace Smith : " Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book. Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook." and again ' Were I, O God I in churchless lands remaining, Far from all voice of teachers or divines,... | |
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