With woodbine, many a perfume breathed From plants that wake when others sleep, From timid jasmine buds, that keep Their odour to themselves all day, But, when the sunlight dies away, Let the delicious secret out To every breeze that roams about... The Language of Flowers - Sivu 12muokkaaja - 1835 - 326 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1903 - 570 sivua
...some that even close up during the day, opening only in the evening. Timid buds that keep Their odor to themselves all day But when the sunlight dies away...delicious secret out To every breeze that roams about.- — Moore Given a pure white flower, and one whose fragrance seems to increase toward night, and you... | |
| Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1870 - 510 sivua
...; From timid jasmine buds that keep Their fragrance to themselves all day, But, when the suii-hVht dies away, Let the delicious secret out To every breeze that roams about. " Like the majority of newspaper men, Charles Dickens was fond of the stage. On Michaelmas day, 1836,... | |
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