 All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose; Up lanes, woods through, they troop in joyful bands. My sweet leads : she knows not why, but now she loiters, Eyes the bent anemones, and hangs her hands.  The Living Age - Page 7001909Full view - About this book
 | George Meredith - 1925 - 490 pages
...hear her laughter, I would have her ever Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. A.11 the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose...rose : and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odours and for colour, Covert and the nightingale ; she knows not why. Kerchiefed head and chin she... | |
 | Frances Edge McIlvaine - 1928 - 124 pages
...the proper time and season for garnering the increase. IX THE PRIMULA FAMILY — SOME SPRING SPECIES ALL the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose;...lanes, woods through, they troop in joyful bands. "Love in the Valley," GEORGE MEREDITH THE charm of a flower, a plant, is often, as we have said, so... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 pages
...Let me hear her laughter, I would have her ever Cool as dew in twilight, the lark above the flowers. All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose...Sweet leads: she knows not why, but now she loiters, Coming the rose: and unaware a cry Springs in her bosom for odors and for color, Covert and the nightingale;... | |
 | 1920 - 758 pages
..."young blood," harking back to the Golden Age of Youth, when everything was new and nothing stale. All the girls are out with their baskets for the primrose : Up lanes, woods through, they troop in joyfulbands. My sweet leads : she knows not why, but now she loiters, Byes the bent anemones, and hangs... | |
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