| 单词 | cowslip |
| 例句 | No fields of cowslips will rush into that opening, nor mornings free of flies and heat when the light is shy. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They were called cowslips sometimes, and sometimes marsh marigold. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the same all the time. ‘These are my claws, so this is my cowslip.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right,” answered Hazel, “and you can find me a cowslip. If you can’t find one, no one can.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The old nuns laugh and their eyes dance when they bend down to receive a garland of daisies or cowslips from his hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The dry slope was dotted with rabbits—some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes, others pushing further down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had first moved in, Emma had planted bluebells and anemones, primroses, cowslips, and wild ivy, which she especially loved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Up, Beetle, and to the cottage for cowslip, mugwort, and pepper. By the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Joan will have to sneeze this baby out!” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Come to think of it, she had heard of yellow flowers called cowslips; maybe this was their special flower. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z With its blossom-laden trees and cowslips swaying in the sunlight, it is difficult to imagine a more peaceful corner of England. Glastonbury festival makes peace with put-upon Pilton 2010-04-30T12:08:00Z Occasionally, an image surges up from the verbal current: cowslips, a ray of light, a shopping bag, a buzzing sound. Review | One actress commands the stage in Scena Theatre’s ‘The Beckett Trio’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Now found mostly in southern England, this butterfly's caterpillar feeds on cowslips and primroses. The butterflies we may never see again in Britain 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Some medieval paintings of gardens depict carpets of turfgrass stippled with various flowers, such as lily of the valley, poppies, cowslips, primroses, wild strawberries, violets, daisies, and daffodils. Outgrowing the Traditional Grass Lawn 2013-07-29T15:15:03.733Z Beneath her ran a meadow threaded with the gold of cowslips, and while she stared into cuckoo-haunted distances she heard above the buzzing of the bees the sound of his car. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z "And even now, sometimes in the spring when I come here for cowslips——" She stopped short, for he was smiling. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Mother, this baby tastes of grass, and cowslips, and violets. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Wherever cowslips crowded thick, Or banks of buttercups would be, A host of airy forms in white, Like ghosts of flowers returned, I see. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z "Come now, you should know that; come now—a likely lass, Proserpine, out in the bush pulling cowslips, bless her little fingers—when—ho!—up pops—eh?—who, lad, who in Heaven's name?" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Cyder bring and cowslip wine, Fruits and flavours from the East, Pears and pippins too, and fine Saffron loaves to make a feast; China dishes, silver cups, For the board where Celia sups! A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z Soon the daffodils will be dancing, demure and stately in the grass; the trees will be alive with their intensely young green; daisies and cowslips will be waking to deck the meadows. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Oxlip, oks′lip, n. a species of primrose, having its flowers in an umbel on a stalk like the cowslip. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Floods rush down, and windflowers and cities follow; and leisurely, another spring, the gates that received them part, and a legion of new cowslips marches out. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The grass is growing long, and the buttercups and cowslips and blue-bells are all there. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Along the hedge I bent my way, Where roses wild are seen; Or cowslips peeping out so gay Among the tangled green. City Scenes or a peep into London 2012-01-20T03:00:10.690Z In these early days among the cowslip meadows and bean fields of Westerfield, books were the young girl's constant companions, although she had the happiness of having brothers and sisters. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The Scottish housekeeper, Mrs. Wallace, was also a devoted friend and a great dispenser of cakes, ices, and home-made cowslip and ginger wine. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z The field was all afroth with cowslips, a yellow, glittering, shaking froth on the still green of the grass. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z A lot of cowslips lay about me; I had been picking the flowers from the stalks to make into a ball. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z On the northern slopes were some dark, wet maple woods, and beyond that the ground slanted away through scrub and alders to a little wild meadow where cowslips grew beside the brook. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z Already in the meadows the cattle wade knee-deep in dewy grass, and cull sweet cowslips and daisies. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Not the least charming incidents in Bj�rnson's romances are the frequent lyrics, that spring up like cowslips in a pasture. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Who ever would want streets of gold," Emily was saying to me, "when you can have a field of cowslips! The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z I strung the cowslips as well as I could. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z The daffodils and crocuses Spread out their golden heads; Sweet cowslips hang their scented bells Above the garden beds. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z You'll never hope To be such friends, for instance she and you, As when you hunted cowslips in the woods Or played together in the meadow hay. The Golden Link of Friendship 2011-11-13T03:00:11.967Z And caterpillars haste to milk The cowslips in the grass; The spider, in his web of silk, Looks out for flies that pass. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z Other flower companies are glad; stately barbaric hordes of bluebells, merry-headed cowslip groups, even light, tossing wood-anemones; but snowdrops are sad and mysterious. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Leaving the cowslips, I caught up my hat and we started, Tom carrying the child. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z O sweet the smell of the cowslip bell! The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z He espied a tuft of cowslips further up, went and pushed his hand through, and gathered them; she took them and gathered more; it looked very pretty when there were many together. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bed I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z "Look at the cowslips, all shaking with laughter," said Emily, and she tossed back her head, and her dark eyes sparkled among the flow of gauze. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z She saw that he was safe, trudging over the carpet of cowslips, smiling as he went. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z Edward took from a maiden near him a garland of cowslips, daisies, and primroses, and kneeling before Egwina said: “Thus do I crown thee my Summer and queen of my heart.” A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Take thee a taste o' the cowslip cordial, an' a bit o' devilled ham. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z We are critics of the bees, Watch how they despoil and seize From each cowslip saffron bounty; Uncaught robbers of the county! The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z She carried a whole armful of spring flowers, gathered in the meadows and copses en route, bluebells and cowslips chiefly, and threw them broadcast on the grave. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z For some time the Twins sat silent, huddled close together on the variegated carpet of clover, and cowslips, and poppies, and bluebells. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z The nightingale sang in the musical April night, the cowslips opened, and the bees hummed over the meadows. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z We saw the lark and the cowslip and the rest on the printed page with one eye, the bobolink and the buttercup, and so on, with the other in nature. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z She told David that she was gathering cowslip greens in a field, when an Indian rushed upon her and carried her away. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z She makes all kinds of preserves, and wines too—cowslip, elderberry, ginger—and used to prepare a specially delicate biscuit, the paste being dropped on paper and baked by exposure to the sun’s rays only. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Even the cowslips have their ways: by brooks sometimes a larger variety grows; nor is there a sweeter flower than its delicate yellow with small velvety brown spots, like moles on beauty’s cheek. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The green of the grass and the bushes was drawn on the green glass, and the roses on the red, and on the yellow, the cowslips in the grass. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z He says:— 'You cannot know, In your bald cities where no cowslips blow, How dear life is to us. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Away down in the wild meadows the cowslip pushed up its green head into the sunshine, and along the warm hill-sides the wind-flowers were strewn. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z I should think you could see I wasn’t gathering cowslips on the campus.” Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z The rose, the lily, the cowslip, the violet, differ in something of the same way, in which the crystalline forms of the several gems differ. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z To what shall we liken the cowslip's valiant gold? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z There are small islands with green, silent groves; there are small islands with rich grass, tall brakens, variegated bell flowers, and cowslips. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Spring is coming, Spring is here, Soon the meadow will be clear Of its snowy coat of white And the grass will sparkle bright With the dandelion and All the yellow cowslip band. Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk 2011-05-09T02:00:03.903Z It was a lovely April morning, and in the wood a lot of children were playing, and making chains and wreaths with the cowslips. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z It was a pretty room with a yellow wall-paper, and chintz curtains with little bunches of cowslips on them. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z They came to invite them to the wedding; each with a cowslip stuck behind his ear, and a nosegay in his button-hole. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z It is a charming place, with deep wooded glens filled with what Northumbrians call rowan and gane trees, and carpeted with primroses and cowslips. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Both the common primrose and the related cowslip drew the attention of Charles Darwin. Primroses can get you primed for spring 2011-03-16T20:23:21Z One day they were walking through a grassy wood which was yellow with cowslips. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z Cabinet ministers are, as a rule, not grimy—nor fashionable beauties—nor famous lawyers; but yet they all volley out, too, with the rest, to drink the country air, and smell the cowslips. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z We should, indeed, count it a miracle if, on a May morning, we were to see a group of human beings start up alive from the sward, along with the paiglus and the cowslips. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z In some close garden, cowslips so Are sweeter than i' the open field. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z Back again across the park, very gorgeous now in the fuller sunshine, casting quaint shadows underneath the trees, glittering upon the streaks of yellow cowslips on the hillside. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z I Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Now it is a glimpse of a sprinkle of cowslips in an old pasture, shaking off their drowsiness. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The snow drops and gillyflowers were blossoming by the brook; the cowslips were poking their yellow caps out of their beds, and over the fields the larks sang joyously. Little Tom 2011-02-02T03:00:21.113Z All sorts of things she gathered for our nosegays, lady-smocks all silver white from the meadow, and daisies pied and violets blue, cowslips and even a blue-bell. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z “Ah, sir,” said Mrs S, “you did not say ‘bother’ after that walk when we gathered cowslips, and I gave you leave to speak to mamma. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z There were steps that flew o'er the cowslip's head, As if for a banquet all earth were spread; There were voices that rung thro' the sapphire sky, And had not a sound of mortality! Heathen Mythology Near the top of the hill is a bare pasture covered with cowslips, all pointing their pretty heads one way. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History With which Geraldine rushed across the meadow after the greyhound and the cowslip ball, and Fairlie lay quiet plucking up the heaths by the roots. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The cowslip turns the fields to gold, The bird from 's nest is winging— Peele. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Or I wish you could be a cowslip and I could be a plume of grass. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The river ran through a narrow valley, with hillsides covered with white flowers and bottom lands dotted with yellow cowslips. Hawk Eye The grass here was filled with stubble, farther up it was studded with yellow cowslips, the largest they had ever seen. Magnhild Dust She took up her cowslips, and hit him hard with them several times. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories We may forget the recipes themselves, but the memory of them is associated with the fragrance of gillifiowers, roses, cowslips, elder flowers, violets, thyme, marjoram and the like. The Old English Herbals It was in the spring-time, and the peach-trees and almond-trees hung full of blossoms and bees; the lizards lay in the walks absorbing the vernal sunshine; the violets and cowslips sweetened all the grassy borders. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Varieties of the primrose.—Linnæus was of opinion that the primrose, oxlip, cowslip, and polyanthus, were only varieties of the same species. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It was blue and white April weather, fit for cowslips and young lambs, when the somber people darkened the vivid, wet grass round the grave. Carnival "How can you tell it is a hoax?" said Geraldine, throwing cowslips at her greyhound. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories There are cowslips down by the brook, and ‘Jacks.’ Leerie And surely you are never going to put that ridiculous bunch of cowslips in your dress?” The New Mistress A Tale The majority of the modern botanists, on the contrary, consider them to be distinct, although some conceived that the oxlip might be a cross between the cowslip and the primrose. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They climbed up a steep road washed very bare by the sea wind, but pleasant enough with its turfed hedges fluttering with the cowslips that flourished in a narrow streak of limestone. Carnival He lay there still, when the cowslip ball struck him a soft fragrant blow against his lips, and knocked the Cuba from between his teeth. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories And now they had reached a little landing-place, which ran out a few feet into the river, and was strewed thickly with cowslips and violets. Mopsa the Fairy Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslips eat, They perhaps will make it sweet. The Bible Story He laid himself down in the green grass, all dotted over with yellow cowslips. Black Diamonds Summer went on; the hay was cut, and in the swimming July heat she used to play in the meadows till her face grew freckled as the inside of a cowslip. Carnival Perhaps," said the young lady, waywardly, making the cowslips into a ball, "there might be worse investments. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories How closely little Will watched for "daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty"; and for "violets, cowslips, and pale primroses." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch, when owls do cry: On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes "Where the bee sucks, there lurk I: In the cowslip's bell I lie, There I couch when owls do cry, On the bat's back do I fly, After summer merrily, Merrily, merrily!" Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 She is ill, and cannot run and play as I do, so I should love to please her, and the cowslips are all out. Lulu's Library, Volume II In the fields were primroses, cowslips, milfoil, daffodils, daisies, speedwell, jacinths, and violets. Toilers of the Sea The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear through the vale; The hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The tiny elves, to whom a cowslip is tall, for whom the third part of a minute is an important division of time, have a miniature perfection which is charming. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Oh, who would keep a little bird confined, When cowslip bells are nodding in the wind; When every hedge as with "good morrow" rings, And, heard from wood to coombe, the blackbird sings! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Oh yes, I wanted some; I never had a cowslip ball before. Lulu's Library, Volume II I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Graded Poetry: Third Year Even when we pulled the gowans and cowslips together, though there had been twenty present, it was for Katie that I pulled mine. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Mourn, spring, thou darling of the year; Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear: Thou, simmer, while each corny spear Shoots up its head, Thy gay, green, flow'ry tresses shear, For him that's dead! Language of Flowers Golden primroses and pale cowslips came; the sweet violets bloomed, the green leaves budded, the birds began to sing; it was spring, delicate, beautiful spring, and in June he would come. A Mad Love Now, if Betty only knew it, she might gather a posy of cowslips, and when the little lady comes give them to her. Lulu's Library, Volume II Where the bee sucks, there lurk I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work Too long in the meadow staying, Where the cowslip bends, With the buttercups delaying As with early friends, Did the little maiden stay. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Language of Flowers The reason was, that she feared lest any accident should prevent her from reaching a cowslip field and so becoming a princess again. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One Among the victims claimed by the grave is 'The long demurring maid, Whose lonely unappropriated sweets Smiled, like yon knot of cowslips on the cliff, Not to be come at by the willing hand.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Milton, Song on May Morning: "The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." Select Poems of Thomas Gray Now Tom had his glass of cowslip wine in his hand, and Maggie jerked him so as to make him spill half of it. Tom and Maggie Tulliver The snowdrops died, and the primrose faded, the cowslips and blue-bells vanished, the thorn grew white with blossom, the wild honeysuckle filled the wood with its fragrance, and soon the fruit began to ripen. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children She did not put it at once to her lips, but carried it in her hand until she had crossed three fields and come to a standstill by a cowslip bank. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One Or something about: Sweet cowslips grace, the nominative case, And She's of the feminine gender. Amaryllis at the Fair It must be so delightful to have your biscuits always light and never tasting of soda; and your butter always as if it was made of cowslips; and your eggs always fresh. Diana Many sheep with their lambs were feeding in this meadow, and here also were abundance of primroses, cowslips, daisies, and buttercups, and the songs of the birds which were in the hedgerows were exceedingly delightful. The Fairchild Family Along the meads a simple maid One summer's day a musing strayed, And, as the cowslips sweet she pressed, This burthen to the breeze confessed— I fear that I'm in love! The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme From that day she never spent a morning without becoming a bird; she would leave the palace when nobody saw her, pluck a primrose, and walk or run to the cowslip bank. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One This led them first past the “back-yards” of Stratford, then over a stile and through the green meadows, where daisies and cowslips abound. John and Betty's History Visit I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Suppose the little cowslip Should hang its golden cup, And say, "I'm such a tiny flower, I'd better not grow up." Pinafore Palace They must be perfectly dry before they are used, and there should be as many gallons of cowslips as gallons of water; they should be measured as they are picked, and turned into the cask. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Suppose Abdullah caught her before she could reach the cowslip bank! The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One One rosy-cheeked girl in a blue pinafore tossed a bunch of yellow cowslips up into Mrs. Pitt’s lap, calling out, “Cowslips, lady; thank ye!” John and Betty's History Visit Have a dozen and a half of lemons ready quartered, pour a gallon of the liquor boiling hot upon them, and the remainder into a tub, with seven pecks of cowslip pips. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Acre after acre of bluebells, forget-me-nots, daisies, buttercups, and cowslips converted the entire valley into a vast "old-fashioned garden," radiantly beautiful. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Let it work for a short time; then put in fifteen pecks of cut cowslips, and the juice of twenty large lemons, likewise the outward rinds pared off as thin as possible. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. But she did reach the sloping bank at last, and just as she was going to seize a cowslip, Abdullah held out his net. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One A hundred years of cowslips, bluebells, violets; purple spring and golden autumn; sunshine, shower, and dewy mornings; the night immortal; all the rhythm of time unrolling. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel Water is necessary only where the juice is so scanty, or so thick, as in cowslip, balm, or black currant wine, that it could not be used without it. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Your flower is a cowslip, which grows in wet meadows, and is one of the earliest blossoms of spring. Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly To every gallon of water you must take a gallon of cowslips. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Then she wondered whether she find all the cowslips dead, and this idea alarmed her so much that she flew slower and slower, though she tried to fly faster and faster. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One One day bluebells were along the hedge-bottoms, then cowslips twinkled like manna, golden and evanescent on the meadows. The Rainbow Others are quite harmless, as the marsh-marigold, so well known as cowslips, or the "greens" of early spring. Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly At close intervals among these grew glorious clumps of golden cowslips and purple meadow orchis, taller and finer by far than those in the meadows, and deliciously fragrant. The Madcap of the School Yes," Augustine assented, pleased, "she does look like a cowslip; she is so pale and golden and tranquil. Amabel Channice But Fantosina put forth her beak as far as it would go and just succeeded in touching the pale yellow petal of the one cowslip which was left. The Bountiful Lady or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl to a very Happy One A vine with a blue flower, new to me, attracted my attention, also a yellow blossom of the cowslip variety. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse American cowslip Pink, white, violet Rich woods; Pa., Western prairies. Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The doctor saw a tableau,—Faith, the cowslips, and Reuben,—Mrs. Derrick by the window he hardly saw, nor what the others were about. Say and Seal, Volume II "She looked like a Madonna—and a cowslip.—And she looks like that more than ever." Amabel Channice Primula veris, he says, more properly belongs to the primrose than cowslip. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The queen and her ladies, "whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather flowers," which at the end of the scene we are told are violets, cowslips, and primroses, the flowers of the spring. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Ellen sprang to it with exclamations of joy, and before she could rise from her stooping posture discovered some cowslips to be scrambled for. The Wide, Wide World He noticed, but only that Faith had glanced at him and was to all appearance quietly looking down at her cowslips. Say and Seal, Volume II How the quaker grasses glimmer?—you call them so, do you not?—and how those yellow cowslips shine like gold? The Master Mummer At four o'clock she sat in state Beside the flowing brook; The cowslips, with their golden heads, Did most inviting look. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Guy Fawkes has been burned for the last time; the Jack in the Green dances no longer in cowslips and buttercups on the first of May. Highways and Byways in Surrey We pushed out to it and came upon a tiny, silent brook slipping through a bed of cowslip and water-arum, and at its margin a scarlet cardinal-flower, burning a star upon the afternoon. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm He had not the heart to bring cowslips again, and ventured no words to Faith but about some of her poor people. Say and Seal, Volume II And at the touch Lynette dropped as though she had been shot, and lay among the trodden grasses and the flaunting cowslips face downwards. The Dop Doctor A cow lived in a pleasant field, Where cowslips bloomed in spring. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks It had been Meg that devised all our games, and Nym that made boats and wooden horses for us, and Joan that wove wreaths and tied cowslip balls—and they were all away. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature "I told you cowslips were bits of spring," said Faith smiling. Say and Seal, Volume II From off the waters fleet, Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head That bends not as I tread; Gentle swain, at thy request I am here! Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades They ate and drank, and chatted too; And, when they went away, Said, "Thank you for your cowslip feast, Dear brindle cow, to-day." Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Eat cowslips fine, Red columbine— Come, butter, come! Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. These are well stocked with dahlias, roses, hortensias, begonias, cowslips, sweet williams, wall-flower, and other old-fashioned flowers, and the bloom-covered fuschias carried one's thoughts back to pleasant days spent in Devonshire dales. Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java And the soft cowslip ball came whirling up to bury its golden head in her hands. Say and Seal, Volume II "He's soft and tender, pray take heed, With bands of cowslips bind him, And bring him home; but 'tis decreed That I shall never find him." A History of Elizabethan Literature Then Mrs. Brindle bade her guests The cowslips sweet to eat; And if they wished to drink, she said, The brook was clear and sweet. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets Accordingly, next day, she sat off to look for a proper situation; she passed through the orchard hedge into a beautiful green meadow, all covered with daisies, red clover, cowslips, and golden buttercups. Little Downy The History of A Field-Mouse Her other hand, and her eyes as far as possible, were lost in the bunch of cowslips; her colour had long ceased to be varying. Say and Seal, Volume II The best known is the Primula sikkimensis, which grows well in England and resembles a gigantic cowslip. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Said she, "I think a cowslip feast Would be a pleasant thing." Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Here is a green shelf, ladies, stuck all with cowslips; and there, another—radiant with peering daffodils. Jonah and Co. English afternoons of the good old time when the dust of the post chaise was the only mark of hurry across miles of meadow land and cowslip weather. The Ghost Girl The bread's good, I know, baked last night; and the milk always is sweet, up here with the cowslips—and most things are sweet when you're hungry. Say and Seal, Volume II Not for her the cowslips in the upland pastures, the hawthorn in the hedges, the elm-boughs high against the breezy sky, the first dog-roses pink upon the briers. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 So Mrs. Brindle sent a calf Around the farm, to say That she should give a cowslip feast At four o'clock that day. Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks Does spotted cowslip with the grass agree To hold her pride before the rattle burst? Modern British Poetry When you are picking cowslips and hepaticas early in the month, keep a lookout for the first barn swallow. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year One hand was literally full, of cowslips; and as he came up and gave her his other hand, it seemed to Faith as if a great spot of Spring gold was before her eyes. Say and Seal, Volume II He seized up a bucket and ran to the hogshead containing his daughter’s native cowslip wine. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale How often would she flowers twine, How often garlands make, Of cowslips and of columbine, And all for Corin's sake! Tudor and Stuart Love Songs When first this month, stealing from half-blown bowers, Bathed the young cowslip in her sunny showers, Pensive I travell’d, and approach’d the plains, That met the bounds of Severn’s wide domains. Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield There are spots overgrown with fern and carpeted with velvety wet moss; here also the skunk cabbage and cowslip grow rank among the alders. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year How good you are to bring me those cowslips! Say and Seal, Volume II “This very next season will Mistletoe and I brew a double quantity of cowslip wine.” The Dragon of Wantley His Tale In some close garden, cowslips so Are sweeter than in th' open field. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs The cowslips blow, And the ground's all gold below me; The speedwell's eye Peers up so bli' I swear it seems to know me! A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Opening the rusty gate, the two girls tripped with carefully held flounces up the stone steps and between the cowslips and wallflowers that bordered the walk. Virginia And then Faith was left to the calm companionship of her cowslips till Reuben came back from the post-office. Say and Seal, Volume II Primroses, violets, bluebells, the firstlings of the fern tribe, cowslips, and all the tribe of innocent forest blossoms, with their quaint rustic names, most of them as old as Shakespeare. Vixen, Volume III. No; it's almost as nasty as the cowslip tea I used to make. When the Birds Begin to Sing And then I thought to myself how beautiful it must be further in the wood, and what a lovely bunch of cowslips I might gather. Hoodie "Mrs. Considine told me that there are no cowslips in their part of Devon," he said. The Tragic Bride "Then you would have a taste for cowslips." Say and Seal, Volume II Purple cowslips, and double cowslips, and double double cowslips. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions What cowslip balls, and what cowslip tea-parties it had afforded us. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories I cannot bring thee violets dear, Or cowslips growing wild, Or daisy chain for thee to wear, For thee to wear, my child. Christmas Roses He went on picking cowslips till the light faded from the fields. The Tragic Bride "Are those better than cowslips?" he asked lightly. Say and Seal, Volume II What exquisite fingers have been thinned to the bone, in creating carnations to be sat upon, and cowslip beds for the repose of favourite poodles! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 I did not know any of them except the Common Cowslip, but I remembered that Bessy's aunt once told me that she had a double cowslip. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories There is a change in every hour's recall, And the last cowslip in the fields we see On the same day with the first corn-poppy. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Walking the lowest of their meadows on the side of Bredon Hill, they came suddenly upon a southern slope already powdered with the flowers of cowslips. The Tragic Bride "Do you know how you will have to scour the country now, and make yourself as much as possible like cowslips and buttercups and primroses and mouse-ear?" said Mr. Linden smiling. Say and Seal, Volume II Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslips eat, That will make it very sweet. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes I laughed over Christopher and his double stockings, and I danced for joy when Bessy's Aunt told me that she had got me a fine lot of roots of double cowslips. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories "I will lead you," hummed a bee, from the deep cup of a cowslip. How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings "I do all my writing here," he said, and then suddenly but shyly emboldened: "it was here that I wrote to you when I sent you the cowslips." The Tragic Bride As the rooms were rather warm, the odour of Lapp childhood was not quite as fresh as a cowslip, and we did not tarry long among them. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bevis looked up and saw that the field was full of cowslips—yellow with cowslips. Wood Magic A Fable Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty— Laugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 He made his way across the meadows, where the cowslips hung their graceful heads, yet heavy with the dew of the short summer night. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century To the bee and the cowslips the little child joyfully cries: “Give me your golden honey to hold, for I am seven years old and know what to do with it.” Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide On either side lay pastures with clumps of yellow cowslips, the faint fragrance of which was wafted on the pleasant air. A harum-scarum schoolgirl It was always five in all the cowslips—five brown little spots—that he was sure of, because he knew he had five fingers on each hand. Wood Magic A Fable He saw Mrs. Withington gathering cowslip greens in a marsh sufficiently removed from home, and that heartened him to draw rein before the still white house. Country Neighbors Where the bee sucks there suck I; In a cowslip’s bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 "Instead of a bird that will be a butterfly," interposed Ivy; "or a cowslip!" Peggy-Alone The country was just in the blush of spring, the woods were bursting into tender leaf, plum blossom made fairy lace-work in wayside orchards, and wallflowers and cowslips bloomed in cottage gardens. A harum-scarum schoolgirl "I told you you were not safe," said the swallow over his head; "and I am sure you won't pick half the cowslips." Wood Magic A Fable The sun was setting, and the picked cowslips must not have any dew upon them. Deerbrook He heard Mars Plaisir compelled to admit that he had never seen cowslips out of France. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance But the cowslip is easily transplanted: the old oak will take no new rooting. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century Here are a few cowslips with their drooping golden bells and delicious scent; I am afraid we shall not find enough to make a cowslip ball. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children Bevis sat down on the grass under the shadow of the oak, by a maple bush, and taking a cowslip, began to count the spots inside it. Wood Magic A Fable The cowslips were now ready to make tea of, and the feast on the dolls’ dishes might be served any day. Deerbrook We have a good many cowslips in early summer. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance With silver bells, and cockle shells, And cowslips all of a row. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes Soon you were scouring the hollows in the woods for arbutus or splashing bare-legged into the bogs for cowslips. Walter and the Wireless There was his arrow ever so far off, sticking upright in the grass among the cowslips. Wood Magic A Fable It is a fine afternoon, she thinks, and my cousins have never gathered cowslips; and we are all going into the meadow for a cowslip-gathering; and Mr Hope will come to us there. Deerbrook I had a bunch of cowslips, I hid 'em in a grot, In case the elves should come by night And me remember not. Songs of Childhood One of these occasions was when, for the first time, she gathered her lap full of soft, faintly smelling cowslips. A Pair of Clogs Down in the meadow where cowslips are blowing. The Keepsake or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth While Bevis was thinking about this, and how stupid it was of the hares to have roads, the hare ran off, and in two or three minutes came to him through the cowslips. Wood Magic A Fable What shall we do with such a quantity of cowslips?” Deerbrook We’ll go to the meadow, where cowslips do grow, And buttercups looking as yellow as gold; And the daisies and violets beginning to blow, For it is a most beautiful sight to behold. Sweets for Leisure Hours Amusing Tales for Little Readers I am crazy wild for the cowslips and vi'lets to get here. Heart of Gold There’s the dessert,—nuts, you know, and cowslip wine.” Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Then there was an enormous humble-bee, so huge that when it stayed to suck a cowslip, the cowslip was bent down with its weight. Wood Magic A Fable He is the oldest cowslip gatherer of them all, I fancy. Deerbrook In a specimen of fasciated cowslip given me by Mr. Edgeworth there was a similar formation of leaves on the flattened stalk. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; 90 There I couch when owls do cry. The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] His good nature had taken off the keenest edge of her sufferings, and nuts with cowslip wine began to assert their legitimate influence. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 But Bevis in an instant recognised his friend who had shown him his way in the cowslips, and flew into a rage, and beat the bailiff with his fist for his cruelty. Wood Magic A Fable How like children they all look together, down on the grass!—gathering cowslips, I suppose. Deerbrook Corresponding alterations may be met with in cultivated tulips, in the cowslip and other plants. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants I will here give only a single instance,—the well-known one of the primrose and cowslip, or Primula vulgaris and veris. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) An American cowslip is not an English cowslip, an American primrose is no English primrose, and the English daisy is no country friend of ours in America. Home Life in Colonial Days Fairer flowers were none on the earth Than his cowslips wet with the dew of their birth, Or fresher leaves than the cress in his basket. Poems He's soft and tender, pray take heed; With bands of cowslips bind him, And bring him home; but 'tis decreed That I shall never find him. English Songs and Ballads The rain had driven away the mosquitoes, and a cool breeze, perfumed with wild roses and cowslips, came gently from the West. The Second Chance I was gathering cowslips in the meadow at St. Mary's, and mother stood by with little Maudlin in her arms. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims The "cinque spotted cowslip bells" brought only thoughts of wine to her. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Presently our master toddled back from out the brook," continued the little shoe, heedless of the vase's interruption, "and sat among the cowslips and buttercups on the bank. The Holy Cross and Other Tales The party evidently advanced nearer to them, and carolled in very beautiful tones, the song of Ariel:— “Where the bee sucks, there lurk I, In the cowslip’s bell I lie,” etcetera. The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook I would always rather go out of my way than injure them, especially such graceful gems as the wood anemone, or the wild hyacinth, or the wood sorrel, or primroses and cowslips. Ernest Bracebridge School Days They smiled, both of them, ah how sweetly they smiled upon me, and I filled my pinafore with the cowslips, soft, cool, wet cowslips,—I feel them in my hand now, so cool, so wet! Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims “It wouldn’t have mattered if it had been aunt’s cowslip wine, but it always chose my best port and sherry.” The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias Then, all at once, I discovered my little master was asleep, fast asleep among the cowslips and buttercups. The Holy Cross and Other Tales And the cowslips, hearing our low replies, Broidered fairer the emerald banks, And glad tears shone in the daisies' eyes, And the timid violet glistened thanks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The tongues of kids shall be thy meat; Their milk thy drink; and thou shall eat The paste of filberts for thy bread, With cream of cowslips buttered. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) The meadows are covered with violets, and the gardens with roses: the banks by the side of the road seem one continued bed of cowslips. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Primroses, daisies, buttercups, cowslips, and honeysuckle were to be seen, but there was nothing half so beautiful as the heap of white lilac. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May There my Own Beloved lies, With the cowslips bending o'er: Speed, O gentle folk of Fay! The Holy Cross and Other Tales I would therefore advise you to set out on your travels; you will find plenty of food, for the cowslips are now in bloom, and they contain excellent honey. Wonder-Box Tales You have beheld how they With wicker arks did come To kiss and bear away The richer cowslips home.… Brother Copas From Lucy le Bois to Rouvray, where we slept, the level of the country becomes gradually more elevated, and its general features much more English, consisting of corn, woody copses, and pastures full of cowslips. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I crouch when owls do cry On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Tales from Shakespeare And in guise of cowslips say I shall love my love for aye! The Holy Cross and Other Tales Quenched the eye's soft light, Hushed the cowslip breath! In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World I can remember now how pretty they were with their covering of white blossoms, and the grass below full of flowers—primroses, cowslips, and, above all, orchises. Two Suffolk Friends There were cowslips and primroses, too, which the boys last year had planted upside down that they might come variegated. Round About a Great Estate Spring, with its cowslips and primroses, and hawthorn blossoms, found us rambling through the woods and fields, and angling for the finny tribe disporting in the purling waters of the crystal Avon. Shakspere, Personal Recollections The reign of primroses and cowslips is over, and the oak now begins to take up the empire of the year and wear a budding garland about his brows. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Primroses and cowslips can't become shrubs; nor can violets, nor daisies, nor any other of our pet meadow flowers. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Never a hand on the cottage door To call me forth in the evening light, My days grow old, and I watch no more The cowslips gold and the may-buds white. All Round the Year The genus Primula includes the European primrose and cowslip, as well as two or three small American species, and the commonly cultivated Chinese primrose. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses The urgency of the inquiry somehow seemed to dispose her to cry, as if she thought she had been naughty, and she had to be dismissed to the cowslip ball. That Stick There was a gladness about her, like the gladness of a little child who has been turned out of a dull, close room into a field of cowslips. Daybreak A Story for Girls To Naseby he went in 1842, in company with Dr. Arnold, and 'plucked two gowans and a cowslip from the burial heaps of the slain'. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies When forth she moves, her dainty foot is set, On cowslip, hyacinth and violet, And all day long the woodland minstrels sing Changes of measure for her pleasuring. All Round the Year "I never saw so many cowslips and buttercups and yellow violets, and these here little arums." Quin How cheerful along the gay mead The daisy and cowslip appear! Louis' School Days A Story for Boys Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants Flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric "Oh, Johnnie, 'tis a long time since we were here together, not since we used to come and play and look for cowslips when we were little." Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn These blossoms were the prettiest flowers that ever were seen; and among the grass under the trees there grew buttercups, and cowslips, and daffodils, and blue-bells. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs I did not know one of them except the Common Cowslip, but I remembered that Bessy's aunt once told me that she had a double cowslip. Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers Our English pastures and meadows, especially where the soil is of blue lias clay, become brilliantly gay, "with gaudy cowslips drest," quite early in the spring. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure I like making cowslip fields grow and apple-trees bloom at a moment's notice. A Mother's List of Books for Children Cook the cowslip leaves until tender in boiling salted water, reserving a few choice leaves with blossoms for a garnish. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet,— With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet! Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" I laughed over Christopher and his double stockings, and I danced for joy when Bessy's aunt told me that she had got me a fine lot of roots of double cowslips. Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers The old English proverb, "As blake as a paigle," means, "As yellow as a cowslip." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure But sometimes in the evenings after a glass of cowslip wine, her imagination took a bolder flight. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Even before I ever set foot in England, how I longed to behold my first cowslip, my first foxglove! Post-Prandial Philosophy Ellen sprang to it with exclamations of joy, and, before she could rise from her stooping posture, discovered some cowslips to be scrambled for. The Wide, Wide World What cowslip balls and what cowslip tea-parties it had afforded us! Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers These meadows in spring are full of cowslips, and in one part the meadow-orchis flourishes. Nature Near London The cowslips on the other side of the railings were larger and finer, and Bess, having no fear of horses, had climbed over and wandered some way down the field. A Popular Schoolgirl In vain to me the cowslips blaw, In vain to me the vi’lets spring; In vain to me, in glen or shaw, The mavis and the lintwhite sing. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham "I see!" and linking her arm through his again, she moved on with him over the thyme-scented grass, her dress gently sweeping across the stray clusters of golden cowslips that nodded here and there. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Violets—great bunches of them—in the patches of scrub between the tall trunks and yellow cowslips and white and pink anemones and primroses. Letters from France Now, if you enter a copse in spring the eye is delighted with cowslips on the banks where the sunlight comes, with blue-bells, or earlier with anemones and violets, while later the ferns rise. Nature Near London There were specks of yellow in these fields, and Kitty who finished her sandwiches first, ran to inspect nearer and reported cowslips. A Popular Schoolgirl In the spring there were cowslips and other wood plants in abundance, which made a delicious substitute for spinach. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua And May birthdays always make one think of cowslips. The Rectory Children The cowslips and anemones nodded as our boots brushed them. Letters from France Now for the dear, dear country, Its trees and meadows fair, Its roses, cowslips, violets, Whose sweetness fills the air. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Miss Strong told me to tell you the horse was savage, and you were such a long way off picking cowslips that I didn't trouble to go after you. A Popular Schoolgirl In Iowa, it is in May, rather than in June, that “the cowslip startles the meadows green” and “the buttercup catches the sun in its chalice.” Some Spring Days in Iowa In the west was still a faint glow, which was like a memory of a cowslip sunset. The Butterfly House The sunshine will draw the daisy from the mound under which I sleep, as carelessly as she draws the cowslip from the meadow by the riverside. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The girl went up to him and the two were in close conference concerning a bed of cowslips the sergeant was making. Betty at Fort Blizzard The cowslip startles: Surprises the eye with its bright patches of green sprinkled with golden blossoms. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. Only English larks and linnets, cowslips and hawthorn, were to be found in the toy-books and little histories read to him. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book We have no simple rusticity of scene, no cowslip and buttercup humility of seclusion. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character Laughter, and chatter of this or that; Ripening strawberries, mice and cat; The birthday near; the birthday treat, With something extra good to eat, And currant, cowslip, elder wine, As real lords and ladies dine! My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale Everything had a cold look—the clear cowslip sky, with its reefs of violet clouds; even the trees tossed crisply, as if stiffened with cold. By the Light of the Soul A Novel May The English cowslip, a charming garden flower, but more at home in nooks of grassy banks, like the primrose, or in the open. The Garden, You, and I I regret to say, I forgot the cowslip. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse Easter had always come to Mildred with the freshness of country meadows, with cowslips and crocuses, with the soft green of budding hedgerows and a chorus of twittering bird-calls in the old rectory garden. Mildred's Inheritance Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way The cowslips, the purple orchids, the kingcups, the primroses! Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books There were cowslips all over the field, but they were thicker at the lower end, which was damp. A Great Emergency and Other Tales What wealth of early bloom was there— The wind flow’r and the primrose pale, On bank or copse, and orchis rare, And cowslip covering Wroxhall dale. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses When the meadows glitter white, Like a sheet of silver light; When bluebells gay and cowslips bloom, Sweet-scented briar and golden broom, Thou wilt think of me, love! Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers O, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet,— With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Oh but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet! McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The first shop I kept was to sell cowslips, and Richard and Sandy lived by the brook, and were wine merchants, and made cowslip wine in a tin mug. A Great Emergency and Other Tales They prepared some hot broth for him, and opened a bottle of cowslip wine. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories They drove on for some distance through a straggling village, with its ivied church guarded by sentinel cypresses, children were playing about with hands full of cowslips, and lilac bushes blossomed within cottage palings. Bluebell A Novel Mora," he said, "it is long since thou and I last walked together over the sunny fields, amid buttercups and cowslips, and the sweet-smelling clover. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Or, soothed by vernal airs, again survey The self-same hawthorns bud, and cowslips blow! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 "Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." Miscellanea That day the daisy had an eye indeed— Colloquized with the cowslips on such themes! Jacob Behmen an appreciation There was also a honey-suckle, and a tall and very pretty kind of cowslip. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 But soft! a sultry morning breaks; The cowslips make the brown brook gay; A happier hour, a longer day. May-Day and Other Pieces There are cowslips, too, and blue vervain, and white violets. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers "Pretty Bessy," our nursemaid, can do anything with flowers, from a cowslip ball to a growing forget-me-not garland. Miscellanea The western sky was putting on wonderful tints of cowslip and rose deepening into violet. 'Doc.' Gordon Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I crouch when owls do cry. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories I. Winters know Easily to shed the snow, And the untaught Spring is wise In cowslips and anemonies. May-Day and Other Pieces Ladies'-smocks and cowslips made every meadow delicious; and the banks of the lowland streams were gorgeously gilded with king-cups. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement I fancy the yellow flowers must have been cowslips, which the green fields of Erin do indeed "yield plentifully." Miscellanea Sprinkle with cowslips and willow leaves, insert in a pie-dish and cover with a thick paste of bulrushes and marsh grass. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917 I forgot to thank you," she said, "for the cowslips. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations "Alpina" and "Flammea" are the synonyms, but I do not know it on the Alps, and it is no more flame-coloured than a cowslip. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers They that wander at will where the Works of the Lord are revealed, Little guess what joy can be got From a cowslip out of the field. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration The place was fragrant with the breath of cowslip and primrose, whilst, as the light faded from the west, the dancing flames of the log fire on the hearth gave a cheery air of welcome. For the Faith How grateful that child is to me for a cowslip only! Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who, from her green lap, throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Whirling out of the sunshine, she saw Miss Polly holding a rustic basket of primroses and cowslips. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Our common cowslip and primrose, as well as many other species of the genus Primula, have two kinds of flowers in about equal proportions. Darwinism (1889) Thy butter has not lost the voice Of English meads, where cowslips grow, And oh, the bacon of thy choice— Rose-jacinth labyrinthed in snow! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 The day of his triumph in the Mercury he made monstrous cowslip balls, and thought that the world had never been sufficiently congratulated upon possessing the ideal simplicity of children. A Daughter of To-Day The crocus and cowslip, low anemone and colts-foot begin to show, and the land brightens with waxy flowers of the huckleberry, set in delicate gamboge edging. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 It was in the spring-time, and the peach-trees and almond-trees hung full of blossoms and bees, the lizards lay in the walks absorbing the vernal sunshine, the violets and cowslips sweetened all the grassy borders. Italian Journeys After all, the Muses are great travellers, and the same foot that stirred the Cumnor cowslips may some day brush the fallen gold of the wattle blossoms and tread delicately over the tawny bush-grass. Reviews I scarce know a flower More prized than is the cowslip. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 At her throat there was a cowslip--a rare flower in Orkney. The Pilots of Pomona At last he reached the bank overlooking the swamp and, gazing down, he saw great clumps of cowslips, with their dark green leaves and crowns of beautiful yellow flowers. A Kindergarten Story Book The flowers we love best are yellow: the cowslip, the daffodil, the crocus, the buttercup, half the daisy, the honeysuckle, and the loveliest rose. Prose Fancies (Second Series) Empty the woods are where we met— They will be empty in the spring; The cowslip and the violet Will die without her gathering. Reviews Wilt tend no more the daisies on the lea, Nor wake thy cowslips up on May morning? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 About a peck of greens are enough for a mess for a family of six, such as dandelions, cowslips, burdock, chicory and other greens. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Then Timothy forgot all about school, forgot what his mother had said, forgot the shoes and their pinches and thought only of the cowslips. A Kindergarten Story Book The first "Spring beauties" bloomed very early in that year; violets came out on the south side of rotting logs, and cowslips blossomed in the slough as they never had done before. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen So saying, she ran off; and Mary, having gathered her cowslips, sat down to think of Mrs. Mason, and wonder if she should ever see her. The English Orphans The beautiful wind-anemones are gone, too tender and lovely for so rude an earth; but the wild hyacinths droop their blue bells under the wood, and the cowslips rise in the grass. The Amateur Poacher "Well, only wait till May, and the cowslips in your own fields will make up to you!" he said, smiling at her. Marcella When at last this little boy reached the foot of the bank and came to the edge of the swamp he found that the cowslips were all out of reach. A Kindergarten Story Book Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites I was continually coming upon some little document of poetry, in the blossomed hawthorn, the daisy, the cowslip, the primrose, or some other simple object that has received a supernatural value from the muse. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Of course, it was only to taste the fresh air; To pick cowslips and daisies; and brush off the dew, Or drink gin o'er the tombstone of Brian Boru. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Look at the cowslips yellowing that meadow; do you see the heron standing patiently in the marsh? Grain and Chaff from an English Manor He just waded around in the swamp and picked cowslips to his heart's content. A Kindergarten Story Book Heigh ho! daisies and buttercups, Sweet wagging cowslips, they bend and they bow; A ship sails afar over warm ocean waters, And haply one musing doth stand at her prow. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Silver birch and black With the selfsame spice Found in polygala root and rind, Sassafras, fern, benzöine, Mouse-ear, cowslip, wintergreen, Which by aroma may compel The frost to spare, what scents so well. Poems Household Edition The windows of the cottage were filled with flowers, and cowslips and violets were plentifully scattered about the little garden. Yesterdays with Authors One does not, at any rate one should not, quarrel with an exquisite tropical flower and call it unnatural because it is not a buttercup or a cowslip. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Standing in the middle of the floor, in the place in the class where he himself should have stood, were his little shoes, very muddy indeed and with a cowslip in each one of them. A Kindergarten Story Book There are small islands with green, silent groves; there are small islands with rich grass, tall brackens, variegated bell-flowers, and cowslips—no Turkey carpet has fresher colours. Pictures of Sweden Winters know Easily to shed the snow, And the untaught Spring is wise In cowslips and anemonies. Poems Household Edition On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drop I' the bottom of the cowslip. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden She wore a white print gown beneath her cloak, and a small bonnet of black straw decorated with sham cowslips. The Delectable Duchy One day I cooked a delicious mess of cowslip greens with a ham-bone. Vandemark's Folly When I came here there were still primroses, cowslips, violets, forget-me-nots, and fields white with small daisies and yellow with buttercups. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" I had a bunch of cowslips, I hid them in a grot, In case the elves should come by night And me remember not. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. God knows that he is worshipped there, The chaliced cowslip's graceful bending Is mute devotion, and the air Is sweet with incense of her lending. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups, Where to the warm and passing southern winds, Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups. The Book of American Negro Poetry But the latter have not the pleasure of the blue-bells and cowslips, nor even of the hips and haws, nor does the fresh pure breeze play upon their foreheads. Hodge and His Masters Even a huge pecan tree, twenty-one feet around, whose planting was recorded in the "plantation book" over a century ago, is considered rather a new-comer by the ancient family of English cowslips. Virginia: the Old Dominion From our feet, as it seemed, up to the blue sky itself, one golden glowing bank of buttercups and cowslips... and cowslips. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 But for the primrose and the cowslip you must cross the sea; and, if you come upon such a wood as I strayed into, my last visit, you will count it worth the trip. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays "Here's another competition between Helen's wild garden and the color bed; which shall take the buttercups and cowslips?" Ethel Morton's Enterprise So early as it is, the hills and fields are covered with primroses, daisies, cowslips, violets, lilies, and I don't know what not; in five minutes we can gather a basketful. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Going along the left bank of the Elbe, we passed over meadows purple with the tri-colored violet, which we have at home in gardens, and every little bank was bright with cowslips. Views a-foot "Only children!" repeated the old witch who was pouring out cowslip wine. Tales of Three Hemispheres By sowing the seed of the wild cowslip in the garden, a number of varieties will be produced, some of which have flowers of a beautiful bright red colour. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Be sure you bring in the cowslip wine. The Moorland Cottage Primroses and cowslips are of course paler still. A Cotswold Village The warm weather of the week before had brought out the foliage of the willows and other early trees—violets and cowslips were springing up in the meadows. Views a-foot The list includes bloodroot, cowslip, houstonia, saxifrage, dandelion, chickweed, cinquefoil, strawberry, mouse-ear, bellwort, dog's-tooth violet, five species of violet proper, and two of anemone. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 To dream of gathering cowslips, portends unhappy ending of seemingly close and warm friendships; but seeing them growing, denotes a limited competency for lovers. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition Thank you, just a little of your sparkling cowslip wine. The Moorland Cottage There were wild-flowers to pluck—the bright red poppy, the gentle harebell, the cowslip, and the rose. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty, Laugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through! Library Work with Children Peggotty's promised letter—what a comfortable letter it was!—arrived before 'the half' was many weeks old; and with it a cake in a perfect nest of oranges, and two bottles of cowslip wine. David Copperfield She revived the still-room, and became a great artist in jellies and elder and cowslip wine. Tono Bungay It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section C Snowdrops and Tilsit in Prussia go together; cowslips and Windsor Park, for instance; flowering palm and some place or other in Holland. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Here are no "tears from the depth of some divine despair," no probings into the tragic heart of man, no insight that goes much farther than the pathos of a cowslip on a maiden's grave. Ponkapog Papers Here Ariel sung this pretty song: Where the bee sucks there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I crouch when owls do cry. Tales from Shakespeare The violet and cowslip, bluebell and rose, are known to thousands; the veronica is overlooked. Pageant of Summer I am like a cowslip turning Toward the sky, Where a planet's golden burning Breaks the cowslip's heart with yearning, What am I that he should love me, What am I? Helen of Troy and Other Poems He shook dewdrops from the cowslip into the cup of the harebell, spread out a large lime-leaf, set his breakfast upon it, and feasted daintily. Good Stories for Holidays The lake border is blue with sweet-flag that is lovely and the marsh pale gold with cowslips. The Harvester The Brandywine cowslip you dropped, when you spoke to me in the lane. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home She reminded me of a scared cowslip that had been cut and laid in the sun an hour. Laddie; a true blue story Also yellow bowls, filled at present with pussywillows, but looking forward to dandelions and cowslips and buttercups. Dear Enemy Miriam came up slowly, her face in her big, loose bunch of flowers, walking ankle-deep through the scattered froth of the cowslips. Sons and Lovers Because the yellow were not so plentiful as the white and blue, next day he added buttercups and cowslips to his store for the dark girls. The Harvester Little Houstonia scornfully laughed, As she danced on her slender stem; While the cowslip bent to the rippling waves, And whispered the tale to them. Flower Fables "Ker-awk!" cried an old blue heron among the cowslips below me. Laddie; a true blue story Blue flags waved, clusters of cowslips nodded gold heads, but the whole earth was purple with a thick blanket of violets nodding from stems a foot in length. A Girl of the Limberlost The field itself was coarse, and crowded with tall, big cowslips that had never been cut. Sons and Lovers He with cowslips pale, Primrose, and purple lychnis, deck'd the green Before my threshold, and my shelving walls With honeysuckle cover'd. Poetical Works of Akenside It was a long while before he saw anything more of the gentlemen of the inn, and lying among primroses and cowslips he nearly forgot all about them and his excitement and his wonderful tactics. The Highwayman The grass was long and very sweet, there were ferns and a few calamus flowers, and there must have been an acre of cowslips—cowslips with big-veined, heartshaped, green leaves, and large pale gold flowers. Laddie; a true blue story Within the kingcup if thy limbs are spread, Or in the golden cowslip's velvet head, Oh show me, Flora, 'midst those sweets, the flower Where sleeps my Grildrig in the fragrant bower! The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Clara, a little way off, was looking at the cowslips disconsolately. Sons and Lovers The true or English cowslip is one of the hardy border plants; also the plants commonly known as polyanthus. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) He was, in fact, becoming sentimental, and had made three neat hendecasyllabics to the cowslips when the gentlemen came out again. The Highwayman In the very place we slid across, in summer lay the cowslip bed. Laddie; a true blue story I hear it said yon land is poor, In spite of those rich cowslips there— And all the singing larks it shoots To heaven from the cowslips' roots. Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh Suddenly, without knowing, he was scattering a handful of cowslips over her hair and neck, saying: "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, If the Lord won't have you the devil must." Sons and Lovers Sunlight liquid in the water made the waves heavy, golden, and rich with a velvety coolness like cowslips. The Trespasser "It's like the Medway," said Betty, stooping to the fat cowslips at her feet, "only prettier; and I never saw any cowslips here—You dears!" The Incomplete Amorist The ribbon was very broad and very bright, and its nodding cowslips gleamed in cheerful yellow. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Bedlam cowslip: the paigle, or larger kind of cowslip. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" Clara laughed strangely, and rose, picking the cowslips from her hair. Sons and Lovers The inclosures were some of them covered with a fine and rich herbage, whose appearance was bright and verdant, and its surface besprinkled with cowslips, king-cups, and daisies. Imogen A Pastoral Romance They were married at Easter: Sunday-school children throwing cowslips—quite idyllic. The Incomplete Amorist May she never seat herself on the living green, amid roses and violets, or on the mossy bank studded with cresses or cowslips, and laved by the crystal stream? The Young Woman's Guide And now they had for one of their own this light little cowslip child. England, My England A close observer of things around us would not speak of the eglantine as twisted, of the cowslip as wan, of the violet as glowing, or of the reed as balmy. Milton With the cowslip comes the early common orchis, with its red-purple flower, and later the masses of buttercups, and the ox-eye daisies. The Naturalist on the Thames The cowslips bowed their golden drops, The white thorn white as sheets; The lamb agen the old ewe stops, The wren and robin tweets. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript But, when enamelling the ground, the cowslip, the king-cup,—nay, the marigold and dandelion even,—are resplendently beautiful. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. She was plainly dressed in a black hat and jacket; but the hat had a little bunch of cowslips to light it up, and the jacket was of an ordinary fashionable cut. The History of David Grieve You have a cowslip there stuck in your frock, though where you got it from I can't imagine. Lying Prophets On the previous night she had decorated his room with branches of the birch-tree, put clean sand and some cowslips in the spittoon, and a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley on the dressing table. Married Sport in the Meadows Maytime is to the meadows coming in, And cowslip peeps have gotten eer so big, And water blobs and all their golden kin Crowd round the shallows by the striding brig. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript People at whom Mrs. Day and her daughters peeped through curtained windows walked by with snowdrops, with violets, and presently with cowslips in their hands. Mrs. Day's Daughters "Is that foreign for cowslips, mamma—and oxlips?" A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Mr. Blyth has broken one of his tumblers, and has mutinously insisted on showing him how to draw the cork of the cowslip wine bottle. Hide and Seek Chicory, blue- bells, buttercups, milfoil, and cowslip blossomed and faded; prickly thistles abounded. Tales of the Wilderness Dead grass, horse hair, and downy-headed bents Tied to dead thistles—she doth well provide, Close to a hill of ants where cowslips bloom And shed oer meadows far their sweet perfume. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Hence Tennyson, in "The Talking Oak:"— "As cowslip unto oxlip is, So seems she to the boy." The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton "Cousin!" said he, imploringly, and held her out a nosegay of cowslips only. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day I have spoken of the pleasure I had in seeing by the roadside primroses, cowslips, and daisies. Our Hundred Days in Europe There is a change in every hour's recall, And the last cowslip in the fields we see On the same day with the first corn poppy. A Daughter of Fife Daisies and cowslips dropping round, Are such the flowers she brings? Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Our real cowslip, the shooting star, is very rare, and is one of the most beautiful of native flowers. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Ha! ha! the child's head is full of cowslips. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Out into the cool grass by some cowslips there came a small dark head. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies So he went down from the tree, leapt over the stile, ran along the fields, and did not stay to gather one cowslip, though each one made him a golden bow as he passed. Child's New Story Book; Tales and Dialogues for Little Folks They shout and catch it and then off they start And chase for cowslips merry as before, And each one seems so anxious at the heart As they would even get them all and more. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Meanwhile of afternoons we pick up primroses at Dalston, and Mary corrects me when I call 'em cowslips. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 However, "mens conscia recti," and, above all, the cowslips, enabled Compton to resist, and he troubled his head no more about her that day. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The sweet violets bloom afresh every spring on the mounds, the cowslips come, and the happy note of the cuckoo, the wild rose of midsummer, and the golden wheat of August. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies And was not the spring with us, and the whole land preaching of resurrection, the birds singing, trees and flowers waking from their winter sleep, and cowslips yellow on the very graves? Moonfleet I Dreamt of Robin I opened the casement this morn at starlight, And, the moment I got out of bed, The daisies were quaking about in their white And the cowslip was nodding its head. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript How I would prance and curvet it, and pick up cowslips, and ramble about purposeless as an ideot! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 However, he collected a good store of cowslips, and then came home. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day They have never dreamed among the cowslips of the real fields, they have never watched the ways of the birds from under an oak. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies A cowslip caught my sight! my blood rushed to my heart—and, shuddering, I started on my feet, felt no fatigue, knew of no wound, and joined my party. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 344 (Supplementary Issue) Clock-a-Clay In the cowslip pips I lie, Hidden from the buzzing fly, While green grass beneath me lies, Pearled with dew like fishes' eyes, Here I lie, a clock-a-clay, Waiting for the time of day. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Here we had a fine view of the valley below, and passed fields covered with oxslips, cowslips, and other flowers; while lower down, meadow after meadow was whitened by the lovely wild narcissus. Twixt France and Spain He ran about like a dog hunting, and soon found marks among the cowslips. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslips eat, That will make it very sweet. Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature INGREDIENTS.—To every gallon of water allow 3 lbs. of lump sugar, the rind of 2 lemons, the juice of 1, the rind and juice of 1 Seville orange, 1 gallon of cowslip pips. The Book of Household Management Where the cowslips do unfold, shaking tassels all of gold, Which make the milk so sweet, bonny Mary O! Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children Young master wore a coronet of bluebells on his golden bead, young miss a wreath of cowslips on her ebon locks. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch, when owls do cry. Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature Meanwhile, of afternoons we pick up primroses at Dalston, and Mary corrects me when I call 'em cowslips. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb And at the present day the cowslip is still known in Lincolnshire as the "fairy cup." The Folk-lore of Plants These blossoms were the prettiest flowers that ever were seen, and among the grass under the trees there grew butter-cups, and cowslips, and daffodils, and blue-bells. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children He put down his cowslips gravely, and, brought her the ball. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day A hundred years of cowslips, blue-bells, violets; purple spring and golden autumn; sunshine, shower, and dewy mornings; the night immortal; all the rhythm of Time unrolling. The Open Air He brought me home, in a basket, cowslips, anemones, and violets. Memories of Hawthorne Shakespeare has represented Ariel reclining in "a cowslip's bell," and further speaks of the small crimson drops in its blossom as "gold coats spots"—"these be rubies, fairy favours." The Folk-lore of Plants Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet— With, the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet! White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor His good nature had taken off the keenest edge of her suffering, and nuts with cowslip wine began to assert their legitimate influence. The Mill on the Floss Her cowslips, stocks, and lilies of the vale, Her honey-blossoms that you hear the bees at, Her pansies, daffodils, and primrose pale, Are things I sneeze at! The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe |
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