Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand, Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land-- Enchantress of the
flowery wand, Most beauteous Isadore!
These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he regards it as so much
flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not though high rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants' horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure.
Yes; all these brave houses and
flowery gardens came from the
The present generation can have little notion of the deep impression made upon the intelligence and conscience of the whole nation by the 'Potiphar Papers,' or how its fancy was rapt with the 'Prue and I' sketches, These are among the most veritable literary successes we have had, and probably we who were so glad when the author of these beautiful things turned aside from the
flowery paths where he led us, to battle for freedom in the field of politics, would have felt the sacrifice too great if we could have dreamed it would be life-long.
Where this green and
flowery splendor terminated, the shaft of the Maypole was stained with the seven brilliant hues of the banner at its top.
"I could have made it much more
flowery if I'd had a little more time to think it over."
A great chunk of the shore had been bitten out by some spring freshet, and the scar was masked by elder bushes, growing down to the water in
flowery terraces.
So the young pair shook hands upon it, and then paced happily on again, feeling that their pleasant home was more homelike because they hoped to brighten other homes, believing that their own feet would walk more uprightly along the
flowery path before them, if they smoothed rough ways for other feet, and feeling that their hearts were more closely knit together by a love which could tenderly remember those less blest than they.
A little
flowery plot of girl's handwriting had caught my eye, and a girl's pretty name.
Answer him thus: ''Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun.'' Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the
flowery meadows, and bring them both to me.
Nay, I am not angry, my beloved; I am only vexed to think that I should have written to you in such stupid,
flowery phraseology.
The children were now accustomed to assemble round Grandfather's chair at all their unoccupied moments; and often it was a striking picture to behold the white-headed old sire, with this
flowery wreath of young people around him.