 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 lehte
...expression. It was written by the English Quakeress, MARY HOWITT. God might have bade 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 of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet,... | |
 | 1837 - 400 lehte
...actions not less praise-worthy. THE USE OF FLOWERS. BY MARY HOWITT. GOD might have bade 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 of OUTS, For luxury, medicines, and toil, And yet... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 lehte
...of Thee ! WABD'S MIBCKLLANT. THE USEOF FLOWERS. BY MARY HOWITT. God might have bade 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 of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet... | |
 | 1852 - 510 lehte
...? Mary Howitt has well asked and well answered this question. " 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. " Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, And dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest... | |
 | Lewis Glover Pray - 1844 - 190 lehte
...for great and small, The oak tree, and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. 2 He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. 3 Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, And dyed with rainbow light, All fashion'd... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 lehte
...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 of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have made no flowers. The ore within the mountain-mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth it need the lotus-flower... | |
 | 1846 - 436 lehte
...Your wicked minds requite. THE USE OF FLOWERS. — Mary Howitt. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and...doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow. 46 TO MY LITTLE COUSIN WITH HER FIRST BONNET. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1849 - 808 lehte
...beauties of nature. Thus sings MARY HOWITT, of THE USE OP FLOWERS. " God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree, and...luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers. Then, wherefore, wherefore were they made, AH dyed with rainbow-light, All fashion'd with supremest... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1846 - 256 lehte
...the earth with flowers have profusely decorated the coppice. " God might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. Then wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed in rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest grace,... | |
 | 1873 - 744 lehte
...favoured by wind and current. (To be concluded.} THE USE OF FLOWERS. §OD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small; The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. Wo might have had enough — enough For every want of ours — For luxury, medicine, and toil, And... | |
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God might have bade 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. 
