Flowers and
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共 183 题- FLOWERS AND FLOWER-GARDENS.
- BY
- DAVID LESTER RICHARDSON,
- WITH AN APPENDIX OF
- CALCUTTA:
- MDCCCLV.
- PREFACE.
- D.L.R.
- ERRATA.
- ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER-GARDENS,
- Byron tells us that the stars are
- ENGLAND.
- D.L.R.
- THE RETURN TO ENGLAND.
- AN ENGLISH LANDSCAPE.
- D.L.R.
- LINES TO A LADY,
- WHO PRESENTED THE AUTHOR WITH SOME ENGLISH FRUITS AND FLOWERS.
- D.L.R.
- RAIN AND SUNSHINE IN MAY.
- RURAL HAPPINESS.
- D.L.R.
- PARADISE.[011]
- That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream,[013]
- Sir Philip Sidney's Oak at Penshurst mentioned by Ben Jonson--
- ON LORD COBHAM'S GARDEN.
- Then again:--
- Congreve in his Letter in verse addressed to Lord Cobham asks him to
- The line:--
- To turn the level lawn to liquid plains--
- Will remind the reader of Pope's
- Lo! Cobham comes and floats them with a lake--
- CHATSWORTH.
- They guarded her from 'the white-gloved beaux,'
- WORDSWORTH'S COTTAGE.
- Another lady-poet has poured forth in verse her admiration of
- THE RESIDENCE OF WORDSWORTH.
- L.E.L.
- THE GARDEN OF ARMIDA.
- THE GARDEN OF ALCINA.
- THE GARDEN OF ADONIS.
- THE BOWER OF BLISS.
- THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES
- THE GARDEN OF ALCINOUS
- Whence every citizen his vase supplies--
- THE GARDEN OF THE OLD CORYCIAN.
- ALLAN RAMSAY'S GARDEN.
- A BOWER
- EVE'S NUPTIAL BOWER.
- D.L.R.
- The great describer of our Lost Paradise did not disdain to sing a
- SONG ON MAY-MORNING.
- Nor did the Poet of the World, William Shakespeare, hesitate to
- Spenser duly celebrates, in his "Shepheard's Calender,"
- LINES TO A SKYLARK.
- SONNETS,
- WRITTEN IN EXILE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- D.L.R.
- LONDON, IN THE MORNING.
- D.L.R.
- VIEW OF CALCUTTA.
- D.L.R.
- D.L.R.
- A HINDU FESTIVAL.
- D.L.R.
- SCENE ON THE GANGES.
- D.L.R.
- H.H.W.
- MAY.
- All true poets
- The yellow cowslip and the _pale_ primrose[060]
- Primrose, first born child of Ver
- Here is a nosegay of spring-flowers from the hand of Thomson:--
- Here are two bouquets of flowers from the garden of Cowper
- Here is a bunch of flowers laid before the public eye by Mr. Proctor--
- I take a second supply of flowers from the same hand
- Sir Walter Scott tells us that:--
- The myrtle bough bids lovers live--
- From eleven to twenty, berries are added to the ten leaves thus--
- THE FLOS ADONIS.
- Horace Smith speaks of
- THE OLIVE.
- THE HYACINTH.
- Sir William Jones describes--
- Drummond had before spoken of
- THE NARCISSUS
- Foolish Narcisse, that likes the watery shore
- THE LAUREL
- THE SUN-FLOWER
- THE WALL-FLOWER
- THE JESSAMINE.
- THE ROSE.
- THE MOSS ROSE
- LINNAEA BOREALIS
- THE FORGET-ME-NOT
- THE PERIWINKLE.
- THE BASIL.
- THE TULIP.
- THE PINK.
- THE PANSY OR HEARTS-EASE.
- THE MIGNONETTE.
- VERVAIN.
- THE DAISY.
- Wee, modest, crimson tipped flower
- TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY.
- ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH IN APRIL, 1786
- A FIELD FLOWER.
- ON FINDING ONE IN FULL BLOOM, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1803.
- THE PRICKLY GORSE.
- VALLEE DES VAUX.
- AIR--THE MEETING OF THE WATERS.
- D.L.R.
- FERN.
- THE ISLAND OF PENANG.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VI.
- VIII.
- IX.
- D.L.R.
- HENNA.
- MOSS.
- VICTORIA REGIA.
- THE FLY-ORCHIS--THE BEE-ORCHIS.
- THE FUCHSIA.
- A FUCHSIA.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- D.L.R.
- ROSEMARY.
- K.G.
- A FLOWER DIAL.
- A HUMAN CLOCK.
- Here is an attempt at a description in verse of some of the most common
- TREES AND FLOWERS OF BENGAL
- D.L.R.
- In visions so profuse of pleasantness--
- I HEARD THY VOICE IN THE GARDEN.
- The Banyan (_Ficus Indica or Bengaliensis_)--
- Eve's roses were without thorns--
- SUPPLEMENT.
- SACRED TREES AND SHRUBS OF THE HINDUS.
- APPENDIX.
- THE FLOWER GARDEN IN INDIA.
- THE SOIL.
- PERENNIALS.
- BULBS.
- THE BIENNIAL BORDER PLANTS.
- THE ANNUAL BORDER PLANTS.
- FLOWERS THAT GROW UNDER THE SHADE OF TREES.
- ROSES.
- These are--
- CREEPERS AND CLIMBERS
- KALENDAR WORK TO BE PERFORMED.
- JANUARY.
- FEBRUARY.
- MARCH.
- APRIL.
- MAY.
- JUNE.
- JULY.
- AUGUST.
- SEPTEMBER.
- OCTOBER.
- NOVEMBER.
- DECEMBER
- MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
- THE END.
- FOOTNOTES.
- See also Ovid, _Met_ iii. 157
- UPTON
- NETLEY ABBEY.
- D.L.R.
- The Rev. George Croly characterizes Bengal as a mountainous country--
- There's glory on thy _mountains_, proud Bengal--