 ... foliage, and her silken flowers ; Her virgin train the tender scissors ply, Vein the green leaf, the purple petal dye ; Round wiry stems the flaxen tendril bends Moss creeps below, and waxen fruit impends. Cold Winter views amid his realms of snow...  The Botanic Garden: A Poem. In Two Parts - Page 89by Erasmus Darwin - 1799Full view - About this book
 | California - 1884 - 738 pages
...himself. Cold winter views amid his realms of snow Delany's vegetable statues blow, Smoothes his stern brow, delays his hoary wing, And eyes with wonder all the blooms of spring.1 Mrs. Delany pursued this work till 1 782, when her eyesight grew too dim for it, and completed... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - Fiction - 1908 - 276 pages
...painting." Cold Winter views amid his realms of snow Delany's vegetable statues blow ; Smoothes his stern brow, delays his hoary wing, And eyes with wonder all the blooms of Spring. The flowers were copied accurately from nature, and florists all over the kingdom vied with... | |
 | West (U.S.) - 1884 - 684 pages
...himself. CoUl winter views amid his realms of snow Delany's vegetable stalues blow, Smoothes his stern brow, delays his hoary wing, And eyes with wonder all the blooms of spring.1 Mrs. Delany pursued this work till 1782, when her eyesight grew too dim for it, and completed... | |
 | Louise Barnett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 238 pages
...impends. Cold Winter views amid his realms of snow Delany's vegetable statues blow; Smooths his stern brow, delays his hoary wing, And eyes with wonder all the blooms of spring.65 In an explanatory note he stated that "Mrs. Delany has finished nine hundred and seventy... | |
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