Think of our thrushes, when the lark sings clear, Of our sweet Mayflowers when the daisies bloom; And bear to our and thy ancestral home The kindly greeting of its children here.
She looked beneath the green leaves; and there, with their pale pink faces almost buried in the moss, she found the first mayflowers of the spring.
She was bound for the pastures on the other side of the road leading to Hillcrest, for there Miss Wallace had said she might even this early find the mayflowers of which her mother had so often told her.
It must be delightful to come into the world with the mayflowers and violets.
Since the earliestmayflowers Anne had never missed her weekly pilgrimage to Matthew's grave.
She walked back to the Mayflower hill as long as the Mayflowers lasted; and she always hid in the spruces to see Sylvia Gray go by.
It soon was a matter of gossip in Spencervale that Chris Stewart was leavingMayflowers at the beech hollow for the music teacher every other day.
Old Lady Lloyd found a wealth ofMayflowers on the sandy hill.
Spencervale people were wont to say regretfully that there were no Mayflowers in Spencervale; the Spencervale young fry, when they wanted Mayflowers, thought they had to go over to the barrens at Avonlea, six miles away, for them.
When she reached the bridge she saw the Mayflowers and gave an exclamation of delight.
She carried her Mayflowers down to the hollow and heaped them in a recess between the big roots of the old beech, with the little note thrust through a stem on top.
The spring seeking motorist finds his first mayflowers there as the grade leads up Manomet heights and may expect them by the roadside anywhere, after that.
I sought long for mayflowers on the seaward slopes and in the rough gullies of these "highlands of Plymouth," I did not find them there.
But the heights shall reward you, if not with mayflowers with greater and more lasting joys.
The mayflowers bloomed in the secret nooks of Rainbow Valley.
And after Walter got home last night he slipped away to the valley and brought mother home all the mayflowers he could find.
The other evening Susan happened to say that the mayflowers were out in Rainbow Valley.
Nobody had said a word to him about it--he just remembered himself that Jem used to bring mother the first mayflowers and so he brought them in Jem's place.
It 's worse to-day because I knew theMayflowers were blooming and that reminded me it was time for your father to come home; you must forgive me, dear, and will you excuse me if I sit in the kitchen awhile?
You remember he said, when he went away in January, that he should be back before the Mayflowers bloomed?
He said he would come back when the Mayflowers bloomed, and when I saw the autumn leaves I knew that six months must have gone and he would never stay away from us for six months without writing.
It did not do any good to say: "Yes, mother, but the Mayflowers have bloomed ten times since father went away.
Cousin Frank," asked Lucy, awfully, "what if we should meet theMayflowers now?
Mayflowers being a very ancient and noble Boston family whose acquaintance was the great pride and terror of our friends' lives.
Captain Jim's mayflowers added the last completing touch to the charm of the night.
Mayflowers were at her throat, violets in her girdle and I know not what in a basket at her feet.
Mayflowers grew there and Jem never forgot to take his mother a bouquet as long as they lasted.
He carried some mayflowers up to the west gable and put them under the picture.
Only, once in every year, when the mayflowers are blossoming warm and rosy under the brown leaves, the owner of the house comes back to it.
One felt the presence of mayflowers, though one could not see them unless one went close and pulled away the brown dry leaves; then the lovely rosy creatures would peep out and laugh, as only mayflowers can when they play at hide and seek.
But always he had decided to wait a little, and again a little; till the young birds were fledged, till they were flown, till the autumn trees brightened, till the snow was gone and he could find the first mayflowers once more.
Anne stood before her, tall and starry-eyed, with her hands full of Mayflowers and violets.
After the Mayflowers came the violets, and Violet Vale was empurpled with them.
We made wreaths of the Mayflowers and put them on our hats; and when the time came to go home we marched in procession down the road, two by two, with our bouquets and wreaths, singing 'My Home on the Hill.
Mr. Phillips gave all the Mayflowers he found to Prissy Andrews and I heard him to say 'sweets to the sweet.
I was offered some Mayflowers too, but I rejected them with scorn.
Away up in the barrens, behind Mr. Silas Sloane's place, the Mayflowers blossomed out, pink and white stars of sweetness under their brown leaves.
But she only said, "How glad I am I remembered him, and how surprised he will be to see mayflowers in return for the lily.
Up went the cover, and a whiff of the freshest fragrance regaled the seven eager noses bent to inhale it, as a general murmur of pleasure greeted the nest of great, rosy mayflowers that lay before them.
Don't care, he gets the worst of it any way, for there is a pin in that rose, and if he goes to smell the mayflowers underneath he will find a thorn to pay for the tack he put in my rubber boot.
Her eyes brightened when she saw the mayflowers he carried.
She was a fairy queen who thus graciously smiled on him and chattered blithely as they searched for mayflowers in the fresh spring sunshine.
Sometimes she sent him a book; it was his custom to search for the earliest mayflowers and take them to her; once in a long while they met and talked of many things.
Little boy," she had said, with a friendly smile, "will you show me where the mayflowers grow?
Do you remember the first day we spent picking mayflowers together?
Yes, and do you remember, when you asked me how he came to give it such an odd title, that I told you he had known a little girl once that he was very fond of, who had sold mayflowers at ten cents a bunch?
I was only ten years old then, and I--was selling mayflowers in the Brookside station.
Often whole stretches of the slope are carpeted with mayflowers and checkerberries, and as you climb higher, and meet the wind from the other side of the ridge, your foot crunches on gray reindeer-moss.
Purple and white hepaticas are clustered in crannies of the rocks, and after a rainmayflowers stand up thick, thick in the fields, in masses of pink and white fragrance.
Who would think that so much fun could be got out of a quiet evening spent in tying Mayflowersround a pole, and giving a gold birthday ring to one’s mother?
The children gathered about Miss Ferrier, and began piling their Mayflowers and green wreaths into her arms; for the flowers were all to decorate the altar of Mary in the beautiful church of S.
She saw him fling hismayflowers on the ground, that strange youth, and snatch at Una's hand, to drag her along towards the low cave entrance.
I rang, and, when the maid came to the door, there I stood with nothing but the Mayflowers in my hand.
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