"Floweret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wave. How many filled this bloody grave! Their pillow and their winding-sheet The virgin snow—a shroud most meet! But wherefore do I linger here? Why drop the unavailing tear? Where'er I turn, some youthful form, Like floweret broken by the storm, Appeals to me in sad array, And bids me yet a moment stay. Till I could fondly lay me down And sleep with him on the cold, cold ground. For thee, thou dread and solemn plain, I ne'er shall look ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various
... ancient man: his harp lay him beside. A stag sprang from the pasture at his call, And, kneeling, licked the withered hand, that tied A wreath of woodbine round his antlers tall, And hung his lofty neck with many a floweret small. ...
— The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius - with some other poems • James Beattie
... floweret (little flower). Associated Words: floral, floricultural, floriculture, florist, floriculturist, florilege, florification, floriferous, botany, botanical, botanist, botanize, inflorescence, estivation, anther, petal, calyx, corolla, sepal, anthesis, anthography, anthoid, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... is the "news story" of a Californian who, presumably mistaking a tarantula for a fragrant floweret, was bitten on the nose and "died in great agony." That, of course, is the proper way to die under such circumstances. They all ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... fate of artless maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid Low i' ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various
... southern hornbeam (Carpinus Tropicalis), we see that eminent scientist, Reginald Whinney, in the act of discovering, for the first time in any country, a magnificent specimen of wild modesty (Tiarella nuda), which grows in great profusion throughout the Filbert Islands. This tiny floweret is distantly related, by marriage, to the European sensitive plant (Plantus pudica) but is infinitely more sensitive and reticent. An illustration of this amazing quality is found in the fact that its snowy blossoms blush a deep ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock
... silken ribands, Slip the gold rings on thy fingers, Deck thy wrists with golden bracelets. 180 After this return thou homewards From thy visit to the storehouse, As the joy of all thy kindred, And of all thy race the fairest, Like a floweret by the wayside, Like a raspberry on the mountain; Far more lovely than aforetime, Fairer than in ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... his eyes were dark and dewy, like spring-violets; and spring-roses bloomed upon his cheek—roses, alas! that bloom and die with life's spring! Now bounding over a rock, now playfully whisking off with his riding rod a floweret in his path, Philibert de Coquelicot rode by ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... pour their showers In rain or ever-changing flowers. Behold, those forest trees, that stand High upon rock and table-land, As the cool gales their branches bend, Their floating blossoms downward send. See, Lakshman, how the breezes play With every floweret on the spray. And sport in merry guise with all The fallen blooms and those that fall. See, brother, where the merry breeze Shakes the gay boughs of flowery trees, Disturbed amid their toil a throng ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI |
