 GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. "We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. The...  Mr. Fraser's garden - Page 42by mr. Fraser - 1872 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...With head in the water, and heels in the air. THE USE OF FLOWERS. MARY HOWITT. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,...oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have... | |
 | 1837 - 396 pages
...Scotland's best deserving and most revered king. RB THE USE OF FLOWERS. BY MARY HOWITT. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,...might have made enough, enough, For every want of our's ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. i The ore within the mountain-mine... | |
 | Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 846 pages
...profusion ? Wherefore this variety — this beauty ? Let Mrs. Howitt answer — God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without 11 flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine,... | |
 | William Baxter - Angiosperms - 1837 - 342 pages
...the introduction of the following elegant and beautiful lines, by MARY HOWITT. THE USE OF FLOWERS. " GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...Oak-tree, and the Cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. lie might have made enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...dissolved our hero's frame, He wasted fast, light-headed grew, THE USE OF FLOWERS. BY MAHY HOW1TT. I. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all; We might have hail enough, enough For every want... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...For all outward signs of glee, Well befit thee, Marien Lee ! THE USE OF FLOWERS. God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,...oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Children's poetry, American - 1839 - 222 pages
...of their stings, they are very formidable creatures indeed. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,...oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have... | |
 | M. S. - English poetry - 1839 - 194 pages
...conversation that makes a friend, but a disinterested observance of these duties. THE USE OF FLOWERS. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough, For every want... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1839 - 452 pages
...tread; For as the day-beams freely fall, Pure thoughts of heaven are sent to all. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want... | |
 | Andrew Preston Peabody - Hymns, English - 1840 - 184 pages
...fulfil The perfect law of love." 91. "Consider the Lilies of the Feld." CM Clarendon. Mary Howitt. 1 GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at alL 2 We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet... | |
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