So suit, so soothe the learned loving eye, That you were minded to confer a crown, (Does not the poppy boast such?
But just when the doll had been disrobed and only wore the poppy flower on her head, the boy grasped the doll, and threw it high into the air.
Day flashed like a smile from Dawn's rosy mouth, With a passion of birds and fragrant appeals, And the warm winds up from the sleepy South Sluiced the red, scented gold of our poppy fields.
In the west the sun is sinking, And the chickens go to roost: And the poppy folds its petals That the beaming sun had loosed.
Now the sandman comes a-calling, And those eyes can scarcely peep: It is little children's bedtime When the poppy goes to sleep.
And the poppy like the Arab, Silent in the close of day, Fearful of the coming darkness, Folds its tent and steals away.
New bell-flowers of white and blue and indigo rise above the first, which served merely as ushers to the display, and whole acres ablaze with the orange of the poppy are fast turning with the indigo of the larkspur.
Like sorrow came upon me, heavier still, Than when I wander'd from the poppy hill: And a whole age of lingering moments crept Sluggishly by, ere more contentment swept Away at once the deadly yellow spleen.
A little onward ran the very stream By which he took his first soft poppy dream; And on the very bark 'gainst which he leant A crescent he had carv'd, and round it spent His skill in little stars.
A short time ago the poppy made every turn brilliant, but to-day imperial edicts, ruthlessly enforced, are saving the Chinese unwillingly from themselves, and the poppy has disappeared from sight.
And now it is reported that individualism run mad among the revolutionary leaders has led to a slackening in the enforcement of the rules, and the revival of poppy cultivation.
Mrs. Hope said she was not half sorry enough to go away, and Poppy upbraided her as a gay deceiver without any conscience or affections.
Mrs. Hope hunted up some old iron firedogs and a pair of bellows, Poppy contributed a pair of brass-knobbed tongs, and Mrs. Marsh lent her a lamp.
The tree-poppy is the only truly woody plant in the poppy family.
The thistle-poppy would be considered in any other country a surpassingly beautiful flower, with its large diaphanous white petals and its thistly gray-green foliage, but in California it must yield precedence to the Matilija poppy.
The Matilija poppy (pronounced ma-til'li-ha) must be conceded the queen of all our flowers.
Poppy straw concentrate is the alkaloid derived from the mature dried opium poppy.
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is the source for many natural and semisynthetic narcotics.
The large ripe pod of the poppy stands erect on a stiff stem, with a number of small openings near the top.
Ripe pod of poppy on an erect, stiff stem, ready for wind or animal to shake out a few seeds at the top.
From the latex of the opium poppy the opium of commerce is extracted.
This morning I have with my own hand placed the poppy seed in the cage, and he is not the least alarmed.
Blood and flesh, these are the substance; hemp is the herb of intoxication; but the poppyneutralizes it.
Do you remember, Hugh, the music--the song that you and Poppy used to sing sometimes without the organ?
Helen is more fitting to the woman than Poppea, though of course to us you will be Poppy for all time.
Neither did he draw comfort from Mrs. Shandy's common-sense assurance that "Miss Poppy is only a bit done up with the strong heat coming all of a sudden, and having to sing before such a gathering of the quality for the first time.
The poppy may grow wild over a continent, but be cultivated only in a part.
The first of these fallacies which have so much tended to warp the understanding of these Anti-Opium people is this: "That the poppy is not indigenous to China, but has been recently introduced there, presumably by British agency.
The poppy grows freely between the equator and latitudes 30 deg.
They would first stop the cultivation of the poppy in their own country.
Why, then, does not the Government of China suppress the cultivation of the poppy there?
This is what he says as to the cultivation of the poppy in Szechuan:-- Of all the products of Szechuan, the most important nowadays is native opium.
We were astounded at the extent of the poppy cultivation both in Szechuan and Yunnan.
In the low grounds the white poppy is by far the most common, but red and purple are also grown.
Poppy cultivation, as practised in Szechuan, is very simple.
The poppy requires a rich soil, so that before planting it the farmers have to manure the ground well; then, when the poppy crop has been secured, the land is in good heart for rice, and so the rotation goes on.
After this testimony, which is corroborated in the strongest manner by many other and equally disinterested persons, who can pretend to say that the Chinese Government has any real desire to put down the poppy cultivation?
Opium is a dangerous drug which is got from the heads of the white poppy plant grown mostly in the far East.
From gashes cut in the poppy heads a juice runs out and hardens into a gum from which the pure drug is made.
But of these, two are now conspicuously noticeable for foliage--the hardy Cyclamens and the blue Himalayan Poppy (Meconopsis Wallichi).
I therefore plant Gypsophila paniculata between and behind the Poppy groups, and by July there is a delicate cloud of bloom instead of large bare patches.
Sometimes a Poppy or an Eryngium comes up with one thick root, impossible to divide, while the next door plant has a number of roots that are ready to drop apart like a bunch of Salsafy.
We played off yesterday, and, and of course they had to beat Poppy and Helen.
The rest of the school, when Poppy had told them of the scheme, had heartily endorsed it, and Thanksgiving morning found them all busy.
Can't help it, Miss Slocum sent their names in to Poppy as shining lights in literature," Ann replied.
I declare you all look like picked chickens," Poppy protested, "I never saw the old wing hang its head so low.
Poppy was seated before a spinning wheel, in a soft gray dress and cap and kerchief.
Gwen and Poppy found their solution in the Sophomore class.
When I went in, Poppy squeezed my arm and Helen Jenkins asked me how I liked the Dramatic Club pin.
That's the reason that Gwen and Poppy prefer to talk to us, who are only Sophomores, instead of joining that group of important-looking Juniors over there.
In 1909, when we again traversed the same country, we could not see a singlepoppy flower; not only so, but we made every effort to see if we could find a field.
The street cars which go from the station toward the mountains bear on each the words, "This Car for the Poppy Fields," and they are a sight worth seeing.
Miss Lowell's present volume of poems, "Sword Blades andPoppy Seed," is an unusual book.
Seems he lives on some kind of poppy sap they call opium, and on wine.
But it was the Drugs that did it, lad, what they call'd affion and bhang, made out o' poppy flowers and some kind of hemp.
Bocconia frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer parts of America.
A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poppy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anesthetic; color; flower; hypnotic; lullaby; morphine; nightcap; opiate; opium; pigment; soporific
