Snowdrops may be grown in pots, and be gently forced for Christmas.
And bleak days are not all past when Aconites and Snowdrops sparkle in beds and borders.
A sheet of snowdrops lay white in the courtyard, where a child's go-cart upset, held the very middle of the stately approach to the house.
She was looking for the earliest snowdrops which were just beginning to bulge from the green stems, pushing up through the dead leaves under the beech trees.
She was so often with Mrs. Dorriman he seldom saw her alone; it was with a throb of pleasure that he saw her come into the drawing-room alone one afternoon, some snowdrops and ivy-leaves in her hand.
Let snowdrops early in the year Droop o'er her silent breast; And bid the later cowslip rear The amber of its crest.
Snowdrops and Crocuses out: I have not many, for what I had have been buried under an overcoat of Clay, poor little Souls.
VIII "Now he will come," thought Johannes, the first time the snow had melted away, and here and there little clusters of snowdrops began to appear.
I think the ground is full of daffodils and snowdrops and lilies and iris working their way out of the dark.
Yes, they are tiny growing things and they might be crocuses or snowdrops or daffodils," she whispered.
There were so many that she remembered what Martha had said about the "snowdrops by the thousands," and about bulbs spreading and making new ones.
There's a place in th' park woods here where there's snowdrops by thousands.
Snowdrops Little ladies, white and green, With your spears about you, Will you tell us where you've been Since we lived without you?
And o'er the bright green leaflets as they lie She scatters snowdrops with their waxen leaves, And all the while her troubled bosom heaves In tenderness, with many a sorrowing sigh.
Virtues like these the world can little spare That fleck life's road like snowdrops in the Spring, Making it beautiful; and, virtue rare!
February went by with her showers and her celandines, her snowdrops and thrushes that sing on bare branches.
She was conscious of an acute feeling of trepidation and, by way of postponing the evil moment, paused to put her snowdrops in water in a bowl which she had left filled in readiness on the table.
Transferring her harvest of snowdrops to one hand, she extended the other towards him.
Dodo did not in the least want any snowdrops for herself; they seemed to her a depressed, frightened kind of flower that wished it had not blossomed at all.
Below the window this morning the warmth of the sun on the house had already melted the thin covering on the flower-beds, and snowdrops and aconites made a brave heralding of spring.
The yellow leaves answered: "We go to lie down Where the spring snowdrops grow, Their young roots to cherish Through frost and through snow.
For all the sunlight of St. Valentine, the snowdrops looked like very foolish virgins as they shivered in the wind about the blackened grass, good sport for idle sparrows.
At last the snowdrops came up and looked shiveringly about; and a primrose leaf peeped through the ground, and died of cold.
A glass of snowdrops stood beside the sick woman's bed and the church bells had never sounded more solemn than on that day.
All this meant spring, and spring meant hunting for snowdrops in the Meads.
One of them was burnt to death in reaching to get from the chimney-piece the snowdrops represented in her hand; the other died of consumption caused by too much rowing.
Two wooden bridges in succession led to the principal island, which was covered with fine old willow-trees, beneath which perfect masses of snowdrops came up in spring.
She sat meekly beside him, with her drooping head, like the snowdrops she had brought in with her from the March morning.
Next to the bed upon which Lady Verny was working was a sheet of snowdrops under a dark yew-hedge.
After she had gone Julian discovered that she had dropped two of her snowdropson the floor.
Then the snowdrops peeped out, and soon the whole garden woke up, and the spring came.
In the garden plots crocuses and snowdrops and golden daffodils nod to one another across the ground, primroses and violets scent the air, and hyacinths ring their merry chimes.
Snowdrops quite out, but cold and winterly; yet, for all this, a thrush that lives in our orchard has shouted and sung its merriest all day long .
There are some little snowdrops that are afraid to put their white heads quite out, and a few blossoms of hepatica that are half-starved.
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