 | Little poems - 1860 - 160 Seiten
...ours, For medicine, luxury, and food, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the lotus-flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 Seiten
...one and all, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree Without a flower at all. 2. " He surely might have made enough For every want of ours — For luxury, medicine, and toil — And yet have made no flowers." 3. These verses by Mrs. Howitt are very pretty, and, in a certain sense, very true... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 Seiten
...one and all, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree Without a flower at all. 2. "He surely might have made enough For every want of ours— For luxury, medicine, and toil— And yet have made no flowers." 3. These verses by Mrs. Howitt are very pretty, and, in a certain sense, very true;... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1861 - 364 Seiten
...USE OF FLOWERS. MARY HOWITT. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man, Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | Hymns - 1861 - 464 Seiten
...made enough, — enough — For every want of ours ; For medicine, luxury, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall ; And the herb that keepeth life in man, Might yet have drunk them... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1861 - 228 Seiten
...LESSON. The Use of Flowers. ^ God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower...every want of ours; For luxury, medicine, and toil, The clouds might give abundant rain ; The nightly dews might fall ; And the herb that keepeth life... | |
 | 1861 - 692 Seiten
...great and small ; The oak tree and the cedar tree, • And not a flower at all. " He might hav« made enough, enough, For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil , And yet have made no flowers." So God might have formed the human mind without imagination or any of ita kindred... | |
 | 1861 - 320 Seiten
...for great and small, The oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that... | |
 | 1861 - 316 Seiten
...for great and small, The oak-tree, and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 Seiten
...MERRICK. 14. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower...make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them... | |
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God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have had no flowers. 
