Bear some glad image to my view, Will please the mind and fancy too.-R. L. B. Or sighed, and looked unutterable things.-Thomson. 'Twas Art, sweet Art! New radiance broke When her light foot flew o'er the ground.-Sprague. An honest man is still an unmoved rock, When the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.-Shakespeare. Aconite (Wolfsbane) ... ... Misanthropy. Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms, which Nature to her votaries yields?— Beattie. Sweet flowers are bright On earth, as setting suns are bright in heaven. But ever and anon of griefs subdued, There comes a token, like a scorpion's sting.-Byron. He that depends upon your favours, swims With fins of lead, and hews down oaks with rushes. Agnus Castus ... ... Shakespeare. Coldness. Indifference. Blow, blow, blow, thou winter winds, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.-Shakespeare. Agrimony... ... ... Thankfulness. Gratitude. Love lights the flame that on the altar burns; Peace, joy, and gratitude, the choir compose.-Edmeston. Oh, let the steps of youth be cautious, How they advance into a dangerous world.-Southey. Takes comfort from the foaming billows' rage, The stings of falsehood this shall try, Justice, herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.-Gray. Aloe ... ... ... Grief Religious superstition. Proud little man, opinion's slave, Error's fond child, too dutious to be free.-Crabb. * When we invite our best friends to a feast, 'Tis not all sweetmeats that we set before them.-Middleton. Amaranth (Globe)... Immortality. Unfading love. Sweet love, that seems not made to fade away; Sweet death, that seems to make us loveless clay. Tennyson. Amaranth (Cockscomb). Foppery. Affectation. ... Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house.-Shakespeare. Amaryllis ... Pride. Timidity. Splendid beauty. He pays himself with being proud.—Shakespeare. Where her love right and stedfast is.-R. de Brunne. American Cowslip... ... ... Divine beauty. Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, American Linden ... ... ... ... Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.-Shakespeare. Matrimony. Welcome to a stranger. {Cheerfulness in old age. Beneath thy broad impartial eye, How fade the lines of caste and birth.-J. G. Whittier. Amethyst... ... ... Her air, her manners, all who saw admired, Admiration. Anemone (Zephyr Flower)... Sickness. Expectation. Will not his name be fondly murmured there?—Hemans. One rose of the wilderness left on its stalk To mark where a garden had been.-B. Banton. Doth look from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth. A kingly condescension graced his lips The lion would have crouched to in his lair.-N. P. Willis. Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly.-Goldsmith. Fame speaks him Apple (Blossom) ... { Preference rat and good. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.-Shirley. Apple, Thorn ... ... ... Deceitful charms. And sly insinuation's softer arts, In ambush lay about thy flowing tongue.-Blair. Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit.-Dryden. Apricot Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win. Reflect that life, like ev'ry other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.-Dr. Johnson. |