 WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith ;) Utterance, mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our simple breath : All who see us love us, — We befit all...  Southwestern Journal of Education - Page 271890Full view - About this book
 | 1836 - 570 pages
...Active-patient be. Too much gladness brings to gloom Those who on the gods presume. CHORUS OF THE FLOWERS. WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think,...pleasure, by our simple breath : All who see us, love us ; Mark our ways, how noiseless All, and sweetly voiceless, Though the March-winds pipe, to make our... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...reverent care ; Active-patient be. Too much gladness brings to gloom Those who on the gods presume. WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think,...our simple breath : All who see us love us, — We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles, — and unto graces, graces. Mark our ways, how noiseless... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...reverent care ; Active-patient be. Too much gladness brings to gloom Those who on the gods presume. WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saitli ;') Utteranee, mute and bright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure, by our... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...reverent care ; Active-patient be. Too much gladness hrings to gloom Those who on the gods presume. WK are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, (Think, whene'er you see us, what our heauty saith ;) Utterance, mute and hright, Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1844 - 314 pages
...one so much better known, that the writer has here made it stand for the whole genus. J SONG OF THE FLOWERS. Born of sunny showers, Think, whene'er you see us, what our beauty saith: WE are the sweet Flowers, Utterance mute and bright Of some unknown delight, We fill the air with pleasure,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...wailing, — " Let me kiss my Celin ere 1 die ! — Alas ! alas for Celin!" FLOWERS. — Leigh Hunt. WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers (Think,...our simple breath ; All who see us love us, — We befit all places ; Unto sorrow we give smiles, and unto graces, graces. Mark our ways, how noiseless... | |
 | M. O. Stevens - 1847 - 322 pages
...would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself. For the Casket. SONG OF THE FLOWERS. WE are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers —...our simple breath ; All who see us love us, — We befit all places ; Unto sorrow we give smiles, and unto graces, graces. Mark our ways, how noiseless... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...A very pretty stanza occurs in Leigh Hunt's " Song of the Flowers." I refer to the final chorus : " We are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, Think,...air with pleasure by our simple breath ; All who see ue love us ; We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles ; and unto graces, graces." This may... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...A very pretty stanza occurs in Leigh Hunt's " Song of the Flowers." I refer to the final chorus : " We are the sweet flowers, Born of sunny showers, Think,...air with pleasure by our simple breath ; All who see ui love us ; We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles; and unto graces, graces." This may have... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...Hunt's " Song of the Flowers." I refer to the final chorus : " We are the sweet flowers, Born «I' sunny showers, Think, whene'er you see us, what our...by our simple breath ; All who see us love us ; We befit all places : Unto sorrow we give smiles; and unto graces, graces." This may have been suggested... | |
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