Of its glories I recall specially the long spires of vivid Bee Larkspur, the varied Poppies of wonderful growth, and the rioting Sweet-williams.
In Elizabeth's day Poppies met universal distrust and aversion, as being the source of the dreaded opium.
The thought of these successful and beautiful Poppies is very stimulating to flower raisers of moderate means, with no profound knowledge of flowers; it shows what can be done by enthusiasm and application and patience.
A dislike of the scent of Field Poppies is often found among English folk.
There is one quality of the Oriental Poppies which is very palpable to me.
The thin, chalky soil of Sussex is singularly favourable to poppies and charlock--the one scarlet, the other a sharp yellow; they cover acres.
Under the scarlet of the poppies the larks run, and then for change of colour soar into the blue.
The poppies came and went once more, the harvest moon rose yellow and ruddy, all the joy of the year proceeded, but Dolly was like a violet over which a waggon-wheel had rolled.
Gay she was, as the brilliant poppies who, having the sun as their own, cared for nothing else.
Peggy glanced carelessly at the geraniums and heliotropes, and told Margaret that she should see a field of poppies in bloom.
A pretty pink aster grew here in great clusters, and a few blue poppies were still out.
The wild flowers on the top of the pass were delightful; I found three different kinds of gentians and the bluepoppies were as numerous as ever.
A driving storm of snow blotted out the views and covered the ground, so that nothing was to be seen but little clumps, a few inches high, of poppies of the most heavenly blue.
On her cheek an autumn flush, Deeply ripened;--such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppiesgrown with corn.
If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies blow In Flanders fields.
And so it is that in Flanders fields today the poppies blow above the graves of the sons of the men who fought each other a century ago in the Michigan wilderness and at Lundy's Lane.
The poppies lose their force at last, and under the scourge of necessity man wakes to find all his paradise of roses turned to briars.
Maya's milk is tinctured from the poppies of her robe; untold millions of misgivings have been put to sleep by her tender bounty; the waters that sustain her are those of Lethe.
It could tell how a face in a circling calash Grew red as the poppies she wore, When a dandy stepped up with a swagger and dash.
There was not even a foothold for poppies on the hills around Verdun, for mingled with the old earth scars were fresh ones, and there will be more tomorrow.
The Maid in the Rice Fields is charming, and Poppy-seeds sent from the East is more than that: Travelled here in winter sleep The young wild Eastern poppies keep Their eyelids closed.
I love words which I see standing there unexpectedly, like poppies or blue cornflowers in a field.
The stalks of the double poppies in the same garden were six and seven feet high, and the flowers were the size of peonies, while the pods of the single poppies were nine inches in circumference.
It contained a mass of exotic poppies of every shade conceivable, from purple so dark as to seem black, to poppies of the whiteness of snow.
He knew that the great vase of poppies had been moved, that night.
He slid them downward, feeling for the great vase of poppies which always stood before the golden image.
In common with the lesser deities," he continued, "our Lady of the Poppies is exacting.
Of all the world that lay beyond the pale of those golden and russet orchards and scarlet lakes of blowing poppies she had no more knowledge than the lizard at her feet.
She was silent; her attitude had not changed, but all her loveliness was like one of the poppies that his foot had trodden on, discolored, broken, ruined.
She stood passive, colorless as the poppies were, bloodless from the thick, dull beating of her heart.
Oft have I taken Sleep from thy dark arms, And fondled her fair head, with poppies wreathed, Within my bosom's depths, until its storms With her were hushed and I but faintly breathed.
That made her sweet lips smile and say-- 'Oh, busk me in a gown of May, And knot red poppies in my hair.
If so, then winds of harvest haste Carry a greeting sweet, No heed where corn and poppies grow, Kin are poppies and wheat, Grain and flower of every strand, Came from the fields of Edenland.
Greek girls with mingled wreaths of wheat And poppies in their hair?
Mrs. McAfee, just before Christmas, sent me a lovely oil painting of poppies and wheat, done for me by girls in the college.
He looked down once more into the light and the color of the great hall, seeing one there only, out of all that brilliant throng, one fair and drooping, with scarlet poppies framing her white face.
Poppies grow wild along the banks of the Lethe River, and the moon-flower flourishes in many gardens.
I asked of some fays who were cutting out flowers If they had any remnants or snips; They said: “We had scraps of these poppies of ours, But we gave them to Peggy for lips.
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