The Floral Fortune-teller/Yellow Flowers
PART IV.
YELLOW FLOWERS.
Describing the Scene of your Future Life.
BUTTERCUP.
The little circle of domestic life.
Southey.
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Wordsworth.
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CINQUEFOIL.
A beehive hum shall soothe the ear,
A willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.
Rogers.
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The grassy churchyard hangs Upon a slope above the village school.
Wordsworth.
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COREOPSIS.
With its own clear brook, Its own small pasture, almost its own sky!
Wordsworth.
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From such unpleasing sounds as haunt the ear
In village or in town; the bay of curs
Incessant, clinking hammers, grinding wheels,
And infants clamorous, whether pleased or pained.
Cowper.
CHRYSANTHEMUM.
Of solemn oaks that tuft the swelling mounds,
Thrown graceful round by Nature’s careless hand.
Thomson.
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Thomson.
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DANDELION.
From the clatter of street-pawing steeds.
Cowper.
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And on the mountains.
Wordsworth.
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GOLDEN ROD
Wordsworth.
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With woods o’erhung, and shagged with mossy rocks,
Whence on each hand the gushing waters play,
And down the rough cascade white dashing fall,
Or gleam in lengthened vista thro’ the trees.
Thomson.
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HIBISCUS.
Hood.
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Even for yourself, on a beloved shore.
Shelley.
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JASMINE.
Among the woody windings of a vale,
By solitude and deep surrounding shades,
But more by bashful modesty, concealed.
Thomson.
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And gardens smile around and cultured fields,
And fountains gush; and careless herds and flocks
Serenely stray; a world within itself,
Disdaining all assault.
Thomson.
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JOHN’S WORT.
The ring-dove builds and murmurs there;
Close by thy cot she tells her tale
To every passing villager.
The squirrel leaps from tree to tree,
And shells his nuts at liberty.
Rogers.
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With beauty, and in quietness.
Southey.
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JONQUIL.
Perched upon the green hill-top, but close
Environed with a ring of branching elms,
That overhang the thatch; itself unseen,
Peeps at the vale below.
Cowper.
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Sustained alone by providential Heaven.
Thomson.
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LILY.
Goethe.
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Coleridge.
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LABURNUM.
Byron.
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With brook and bridge, and gray stone cottages
Half hid by rocks and fruit-trees.
Coleridge.
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LOOSE STRIFE.
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road runs by.
Tennyson.
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The dimmest in the district's map.
Byron.
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MARIGOLD.
A small and silent dell! O’er stiller place
No sinking skylark ever poised himself.
Coleridge.
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—With large prospect, north and south.
Wordsworth.
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MIGNONETTE.
With modest jessamine, and that sweet spot
Of garden ground, when ranged in meet array,
Grow countless sweets—the wall-flower and the pink,
And the thick thyme-bush.
Kirk White.
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And gain-devoted cities.
Cowper.
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NASTURTION.
With mountains round about environed,
And mighty woods;
And in the midst, a little river.
Spenser.
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Shakspeare.
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PRIMROSE.
Which shows a distant prospect far away
Of busy cities.
Byron.
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Shelley.
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SAFFRON.
Down in a dale, hard by a forest’s side,
Far from resort of people.
Spenser.
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Coleridge.
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SUNFLOWER.
Tall trees, green arbors, and ground-flowers in flocks.
Wordsworth.
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Byron.
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TRUMPET FLOWER.
A willow, and a ruined hut.
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Wordsworth.
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VIOLET.
Is shadowed with rocks.
Shelley.
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And mid the city’s strife.
Hood.
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WALL-FLOWER.
A little lawny islet. By anemone and violet,
Like mosaic, paven.
Shelley.
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Which the lone fisher, when his nets are dried,
Abandons.
Shelley.
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WILLOW.
Float here and there, like things astray;
And high o’erhead the skylark shrills.
Coleridge.
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Coleridge.
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WATER-LILY.
And many a shadow-chequered lawn
Full of the city’s stilly sound.
Tennyson.
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From the main river sluiced, where all
The sloping of the moonlit sward
Is damask work, and deep inlay
Of braided blooms unmown, which creep
Adown to where the waters sleep;
A goodly place!
Tennyson.