Part 47

KEATS.

13. Heart's ease. One could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.

MARY HOWITT.

14. The humble rosemary, Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed To scent the dead.

MOORE.

15. The primrose, all bepearl'd with dew, So yellow, green, and richly too. Ask you why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break? I must tell you these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.

CAREW.

16. Those greater far than all Our blessed Lord did see, The lilies beautiful, which grew In the fields of Galilee!

MARY HOWITT.

17. A little flower, which Before the bolt of Cupid fell milk-white, Now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Midsummer Night's Dream.

18. The lilac, various in array--now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if, Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all.

COWPER.

19. King-cup, with its canary hue; 'Twas from this goblet Psyche drew The nectar for her butterflies.

MISS MOISE.

20. Jasmine, with her pale stars shining through The myrtle darkness of her leaf's green hue.

MRS. NORTON.

21. The water-lilies, that glide so pale, As if with constant care Of the treasures which they bear; For those ivory vases hold Each a sunny gift of gold.

MISS LANDON.

22. Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, And take the winds of March with beauty.

Winter's Tale.

23. Sweet wild-flowers, that hold their quiet talk Upon the uncultured green.

MRS. GILMAN.

24. The virgin lilies in their white, Clad but with the lawn of almost naked white.

COWLEY.

25. The hyacinth, for constancy, wi' its unchanging blue.

BURNS.

26. Blue pelloret, from purple leaves up-slanting A modest gaze, like eyes of a young maiden, Shining beneath dropp'd lids, the evening of her wedding.