"Snowdrop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... first the snowdrop's bells are seen, Then close against the sheltering wall The tulip's horn of dusky green, The peony's dark ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... of Henry Winstanley, and his end, have been so graphically and beautifully described by Jean Ingelow, that we take the liberty to transcribe part of her poem. It tells first how the loss of the "Snowdrop" troubled Winstanley:— ...
— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope
... Drakestail The Ratcatcher The True History of Little Goldenhood The Golden Branch The Three Dwarfs Dapplegrim The Enchanted Canary The Twelve Brothers Rapunzel The Nettle Spinner Farmer Weatherbeard Mother Holle Minnikin Bushy Bride Snowdrop The Golden Goose The Seven Foals The Marvellous Musician The ...
— The Red Fairy Book • Various
... the Snowdrop, and smiles at the motherly earth, "Soon!—for the Spring with her languors comes stealthily on Snow was my cradle, and chill winds sang at my birth; Winter is over—and I must make haste to ...
— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various
... blue-stocking in her time; Mrs. Hemans; pretty, charming 'Perdita,' who flirted alternately with poetry and the Prince Regent, played divinely in the Winter's Tale, was brutally attacked by Gifford, and has left us a pathetic little poem on the Snowdrop; and Emily Bronte, whose poems are instinct with tragic power, and seem often on the verge ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
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