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" Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. "
Flora's Interpreter, Or The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments - Page 121
by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 223 pages
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The Cyclopędia of Practical Quotations, English and Latin: With an Appendix ...

1889 - 934 pages
...to wed, ' And clasps her rings on every hand. b. HOOD — Flotcers. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoo for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. c. KEATS — / i'tood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill. PIMPEENEL. Anafjallis Arvensis. The tarf is warm beneath...
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Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young Or Old, who Cares to Read it

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1890 - 218 pages
...together, summer after summer, regardless of color harmonies. Last, but not least, there was a patch of sweet peas, " on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white." These dispensed their sweet odors so generously that it was a favorite diversion among the village...
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Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young Or Old, who Cares to Read it

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - 1890 - 220 pages
...together, summer after summer, regardless of color harmonies. Last, but not least, there was a patch of sweet peas, " on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate whitt." These dispensed their sweet odors so generously that it was a favorite diversion among the...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats Given from His Own Editions and ..., Volume 1

John Keats - 1891 - 246 pages
...world of blisses : So haply when I rove in some far vale, 53 His mighty voice may come upon the gale. Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight : With...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. 60 Linger awhile upon some bending planks That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently...
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The Overland Monthly

1891 - 708 pages
...heart, which was sure to be a conspicious feature of country posyyards, and is felicitously described as "on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white." In addition to this pink pea, there are thirty other distinct varieties, all trained to high wire trellises,...
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Poems

Elfrida Mary Crowley - 1892 - 98 pages
...intensest pleasure he had received in life was in watching the growth of flowers,— " Here are sweet-peas on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush...all things To bind them all about with tiny rings." Wordsworth, whose " Daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky,...
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Papers and Proceedings, Volumes 15-18

American Library Association. Conference - 1893 - 704 pages
...Denver. After the long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." And these flowers proved worthy messengers of the Colorado Library Association, that bound us all about...
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Library Journal, Volume 20

Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1895 - 564 pages
...Denver. After the long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." And these flowers proved worthy messengers of the Colorado Library Association, that bound us all about...
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Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library ...

American Library Association - 1895 - 300 pages
...Denver. After the long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." And these flowers proved worthy messengers of the Colorado Library Association, that bound us all about...
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Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American ..., Volume 17

American Library Association. General Meeting - 1895 - 126 pages
...Denver. After the long, hot journey, it was most refreshing to find a flowery welcome in our rooms, for " Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With...all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings." And these flowers proved worthy messengers of the Colorado Library Association, that bound us all about...
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