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... poets to address a poem to a particular flower . Donne's was a primrose , and you might have expected Herrick at least , who was a country parson in Devon , to have filled his verses with particular wild flowers , but it would seem that ...
... poets to address a poem to a particular flower . Donne's was a primrose , and you might have expected Herrick at least , who was a country parson in Devon , to have filled his verses with particular wild flowers , but it would seem that ...
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... poets . Francis Darwin's botany book called The Intelligence of Plants is hardly less poetic than Wordsworth's " Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes . ' Flowers certainly do look happy when they are in a state to ...
... poets . Francis Darwin's botany book called The Intelligence of Plants is hardly less poetic than Wordsworth's " Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes . ' Flowers certainly do look happy when they are in a state to ...
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... poet of poets , is chiefly remembered in our days by his sentimental longing for a garden . However , as will be seen , a much less emotional type than the poet confesses at times to a like feeling . ' This only grant me , that my means ...
... poet of poets , is chiefly remembered in our days by his sentimental longing for a garden . However , as will be seen , a much less emotional type than the poet confesses at times to a like feeling . ' This only grant me , that my means ...
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