| 单词 | dewdrop |
| 例句 | Then the light withdrew into itself, leaving a dewdrop on a field of gold. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z At Jesus’s feet, people had thrown piles of change, wilted daisies, and two roses —one fresh with thorns, the other cloth with plastic dewdrops. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Blue-gold tinged with pink, each dewdrop turned into a scintillating jewel, spiders’ webs became glittering filigree, birdsong rang out as if there had never been a day as fresh and beautiful as this one. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The fairies drifting to the ground in the falling yellow leaves, twinkling inside them like dewdrops. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I’d kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It made her cheeks damp and left dewdrops in her hair. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she found herself inside the story, which went as follows: Once upon a time, when magic was not questioned and the miraculous showed itself in every dewdrop and moon shadow, there lived a frog. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The grass was wet with dew and a million dewdrops were sparkling and twinkling like diamonds around his feet. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z They spoke too softly for Lyra to hear, but she enjoyed watching them sip dewdrops from the marram grass to refresh themselves. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Kindness like that is the daffodils of the world, the dewdrops, the grass stains on the knees of jeans, yet she is sick to death of being a sweetheart. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Otherwise, Arvelo effectively illuminated the shell with projected dewdrops and leaves. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z There were some lovely moments: pizzicatos like falling dewdrops. Hot composer offers lukewarm work at Dumbarton Oaks 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Instead, the dishes the series features — some entirely fanciful, like dwindling dewdrop cake, and others based on the real world, like gingerbread — become vehicles for creativity and problem-solving. ‘Alice’s Wonderland Bakery’: Recipes for Real Life, if Not Real Kitchens 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The Met is filling galleries with clothing for firefighters, courtesans, actors and children in patterns including lobsters, demons, clouds and dewdrops. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z He might drop a chord of dewdrop sensitivity into the middle of a passage of heavily percussive playing; he might change the hue of a comrade’s solo by suggesting a subtle countermelody underneath. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Likewise, dewdrop sent in a brilliant review of Matched by Ally Condie. Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-05T08:00:00Z Crystals of green — buttons and beads and flotsam merging like grains of sand into a clump — dangled like dewdrops; stars sparkled darkly in silver and black. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z I want the rebirth, the renewal, the rejuvenation, the dewdrops and showers, the first cuckoos and ascendant larks, the dooryard lilacs and budding twigs. Perspective | Beyond Vivaldi, a classical playlist to bring on the spring 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Alsop took a painterly approach to Mahler’s many details — birdsong and bells, dewdrop harps, the lowing moo of a tuba. Review | A weekend of masterful Mahler with the NSO and the BSO 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z He saw a spider’s web of formulas spinning across untold space, in which the stars hung like dewdrops, and from them beams of light pierced his own seclusion. Opinion | Newton formulated his theory of gravity in a time of plague. We need a miracle, too. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z There’s one tremendous shot in Tall Grass with a reflection in a moving dewdrop, with the camera inverting. In the Tall Grass’ director was ‘terrified’ to send his script to Stephen King 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “I got into position well before first light and just watched as the sun rose. It was an awesome thing to witness and the effect of the sun on the dewdrops was spectacular,” he said. Wildlife photographer captures images of dragonflies covered in dew: It 'clung to their bodies like jewels' 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z And oh, that voice, with notes that dangle like dewdrops, and soaring crescendos that the vast room can barely hold. ‘Amazing Grace’ review: Capturing the incandescent joy of an Aretha Franklin performance 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z I recruited my mom, as handy as Bob Vila with a drill and a glue gun, to help me build the wooden frame, assemble the staircases, wire the dewdrop chandeliers and faux candelabra. Letter of Recommendation: Dollhouses 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z And Mr. Welch drops a string of battery-operated firefly or dewdrop lights into old wine bottles, which illuminate the table “and leave the view of the stars wide open.” The Ins and Outs of Al Fresco Life 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Because Netflix has both the willingness to let me make my own movie without interference and the resources to let me do things like that shot of the dewdrop. In the Tall Grass’ director was ‘terrified’ to send his script to Stephen King 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He likes a technique he learned that fools the eye into seeing dewdrops on flower petals. Artist paints watercolors after stopping 50 years ago 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z “Our lives may be no more than dewdrops on a summer morning,” it said. How dropping acid saved my life 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z He’s still working with his trademark dewdrop synth melodies, but this song is twitchier and more anxious than any of his other recent work. This is your next jam: Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, and more 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Shakespeare is also credited with giving us lacklustre, eyeball, dewdrop and fairyland; Sidney, with inventing the deathblow. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Ruskin was reacting in part to sentimental literature and gothic novels, in which every dewdrop and tree limb was apt to quiver with human emotion. Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z There are the odd moments – parties, public readings – but that’s just the dewdrop.” Edna O’Brien: from Ireland’s cultural outcast to literary darling 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Nose like a dewdrop, and dark hair that was fine, silky, and curly. An excerpt from "Bella's Gift" 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The waters of that river then, and for several hundred years after, were as clear as the crystal dewdrops. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z Then he would poke it with the pointer he held in his hand, and, turning to the class, as the mass quivered, remark, "The trembling of the dewdrop, gentlemen!" Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z "Blind mortal!" replied the cloudy phantom, "pure and transparent as the dewdrop hath the heart of Alcyone been unto thee; there breathes not on your dull earth a spirit more free from guile." Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z The least flower with a brimming cup may stand, And share its dewdrop with another near. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Its leaf was made to be covered with dewdrops. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z A dewdrop, falling on the ocean wave, Exclaimed, in fear, "I perish in this grave!" The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z Then she would rise suddenly and go about some household business, with the head-shake of the antlered stag that scatters dewdrops. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z A tear rolled down his time-worn cheek which his keen eye had never shed, but it might be the cold dewdrop of the early morn. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z In each case, he found that the dewdrop is able to lower its energy state by moving to the pointy tip of the leaf. Observatory: Study Explains Why Dewdrops Form on Tips of Grass 2012-01-23T23:46:34Z Transfix'd His hand yet gives—gives dewdrops holy, And into its own gift is melted wholly. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Cold on His cradle the dewdrops are shining, Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall; Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Savior of all! The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z This is seen to be erroneous by simply reading his speeches, for they are like the dewdrops on the blades of green in early fall, sparkling everywhere. Lincoln's Use of The Bible 2011-12-30T03:00:27.967Z A dewdrop is not the less beautiful that it illustrates in its structure the law of gravitation which holds the world together, and by which “the most ancient heavens are fresh and strong.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z “Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses, And bring me the land where the dewdrop reposes.” Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z The mountains also attract and guide the storms and modify their force, condense the mists, the raindrop, and the dewdrop, and thus aid in refreshing the valleys in connection with the heat of the sunbeams. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z See the dewdrops how they kiss Every little flower that is, Hanging on their velvet heads, Like a rope of crystal beads. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z The clasps just met, and the pearls glistened like dewdrops on her bosom—or were they tears? 289But in the centre of the necklace was a vacant space. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z In yonder green meadow, to memory dear, He slaps a mosquito and brushes a tear; The dewdrops hang round him on blossoms and shoots, He breathes but one sigh for his youth and his boots. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z So she stood, blonde: blonde and black; a little sombre amid the warmth and light of other toilettes; and, for unique relief, two diamonds in her ears, like dewdrops. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z To your shrill flutings I could listen When on the grass-blades dewdrops glisten, And morn is ripe. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z By the time he released her, Pepita’s face was pink as apple blossom, and the tears that sparkled on it were for all the world like dewdrops on the petals of a flower. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z The Infinite spirit, the “Poetic Genius,” thrills through their entire beings as the sunshine through a dewdrop. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z The victorious host of priestly warriors, which the Psalmist saw following the priest-king in the day of his power, numerous as the dewdrops, and radiant with reflected beauty as these, were all “willing”—volunteers. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z He equally excels in painting insects, flies, and butterflies, and the dewdrops trembling on the leaves; the velvety skin of his fruits invites the touch of the fingers. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Beloved," he whispered, "the star was but a dewdrop of the Peace that passeth understanding. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z He is the wealthiest man who sees diamonds in the dewdrops and unsullied gold in the sunset tints. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Purple the woods where the dewdrops, Pearly and grey, Wash in the cool from our faces The flame of day. The Divine Vision and Other Poems 2011-09-02T02:00:18.933Z Bracelets of dewdrop diamonds encircled her wrists, and with the rubies and diamonds at throat and ear, completed a toilet which might have vied with that of some semi-barbaric Eastern princess. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z His Skill in depicting Dewdrops and Insects.—With marvellous skill he frequently introduces dewdrops of incomparable transparency that trickle down the leaves or sprinkle the fresh delicate petals. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z At first men thought she was some lissom sprite of spring arriving, decorated with the dewdrops of dawn. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z Come, Summer, come, and in the early dawn Find sparkling dewdrops on the fragrant lawn; Hush all before thy majesty at noon, And hallow the long evening hours; come soon, Come, Summer, come. Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z It was as cold as on a damp autumn morning; the grass and bushes were as wet as after a heavy shower, and heavy dewdrops hung on the old spider's webs between them. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The thrushes burst into song; the cuckoo flew over with his merry cry; dewdrops glittered like gems upon the bushes, and the lovely May bloom scented the breeze. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z His verse, as all the world declares, And Tennyson himself confesses, The radiance of the dewdrop shares, The berry's perfect shape possesses; And even William Wordsworth praises The magic of his faultless phrases. More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z Then there were the lovely little stones to be gathered like dewdrops in a forest in Rhodesia—the Somabula. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z The cloudberries and dewdrops steadily lessened in number, but Lindagull's cheeks became no paler and her quiet patience continued the same as before. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z How sweetly she thanked me for the rose I cut for her without spilling one of the dewdrops. Randy's Summer A Story for Girls 2011-06-16T02:00:16.550Z As the diamond sparkles just like the dewdrop, but only with steady power and even without the sun, her heart resembled the softest in all feminine mildness and purity, and excelled it only in strength. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z It was not a dewdrop sparkling on a leaf. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It seemed to her that she was drinking some magic draught in an enchanted garden full of roses, dancing daffodils, and frozen dewdrops imprisoning a thousand spurts of flame. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z "Why shouldn't I look cheerful when I have been offered feasts of hot bar iron, frozen quicksilver, a dewdrop and a gnat's leg, and seven cartloads of mud?" laughed Knut. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z And new colors in thought and character appear, and the glowing eye glistens with changing smile or tear, like dewdrops on the jewelled face of morn. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z I am sure fairyland can’t be half so gorgeous; fairies wear only dewdrops for jewels; but here, I believe, there must be nearly all the jewels in the world.” The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z The dew overnight 197 had bejeweled each petal and when the first rays of the sun hurried to kiss her, the dewdrops sparkled like all manner of gems and precious stones. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z It was a very simple but becoming one of rich plain silk, with a little lace, and the pearl daisies with diamond dewdrops, sent by the bridegroom, accorded with it well. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z "Give him a dewdrop and the leg of a gnat so that he may for once eat until he is really satisfied." Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z One was longer, the other shorter; but only as one dewdrop outlasts another on the grass. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z A dewdrop fell in the starry hush, Lured from heaven by her dreamy blush; But the tender kiss of his balmy lip She gave to a bee, next morning, to sip. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z And all over the face of this great camp of gladness, the cups of the flowers and the heavy dewdrops were pitched, like peopled tents. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z If we furnish an occasional poetic gleam like a dewdrop sparkling in the sun, it is all we dare hope for. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z "Lie there and starve until you can be satisfied with a dewdrop and a gnat leg," said the elves. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z Pretty soon a Yellow Bird in a wicker cage began to sing: "Buy a fairy dewdrop pin Your purple tie to fasten in." Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare 2011-05-09T02:00:05.633Z There was a continual laugh upon her lips, fresh as the morning rose that, with the first ray of sunshine, opens its fragrant crimson bud with the cool dewdrops still hanging heavy upon it. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z She was dressed in moonbeams and dewdrops and the fleece of a cloud, and she had wings made of gossamer like those of a dragon-fly, and on her head there trembled a star. The Blue Rose Fairy Book 2011-05-03T02:00:18.777Z There is no more appealingly beautiful flower on the western prairies than this one when it is sparkling with dewdrops in the first beams of the rising sun. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z On the thirtieth day, the wizard brought her the last berry and the last dewdrop laid upon a leaf of Lapland dwarf-birch. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z If the flower is not permitted to struggle upward towards the sun, and to gather in the tiny dewdrops, it will wither and die. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z Thus the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke prefiguring words: for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dewdrop, into heaven. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z As he bobbed the grass and bushes dewdrops flew from them, catching sunbeams as they hurtled out to their death, for one instant of wondrous glory flashing like gems. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z In a large glass jar is the water it contained—clear, crystal water, such as flashes in the sunlight of a rainbow-arching shower, or a dewdrop sparkling on the petals of a lily. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z We suppose the dewdrops in each particular meadow get together occasionally and tell each other that when they are gone there will be no more dew. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z To soar and circle o'er shadowy glade Where dewdrops hide from the sun! The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z But the bird was soon out of sight among the clouds, and Violet, with these pearly dewdrops clustering in her golden hair, went dancing down the hill. Violet: A Fairy Story 2011-04-07T02:00:17.290Z For tears, ye shall have jewels, as dewdrops from heaven. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z "Oh, yes;" and Elsa looks down at the large diamond which sparkles like a dewdrop or a tear near her wedding-ring. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The bearded rye brushed against his knees and scattered large dewdrops, yet the pathway was not damp, being sheltered by the full drooping ears. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z That "agoo" on your lips is the tenderest thing, And the eyes smiling at me, ye bonnie wee thing, Are violets washed with the dewdrops of spring, But not for this do I love you. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Without, the dewdrops rustled in the leaves, but the nightingales were hushed. Blanche 2011-02-27T03:00:34.170Z And at least in one place she gives directions as to the proper use of green grass and wet dewdrops upon her grave—implying that dewdrops are sometimes dry. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z He who quiets sordid craving, Hard in this world to allay, Like the dewdrop from the lotus, All his sorrows fall away. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z In fact, they are all but transparent, and might readily be mistaken for a cluster of dewdrops. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z We watched him make the divots flee And dribble o’er the bunker’s brinks, The dewdrops sparkled on the lea, The sun shone through the fog bank’s chinks. Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z The air is sweet and fresh as dewdrops in convolvuli. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Only look at these rosebuds, how beautiful they are, each one with a diamond dewdrop in its breast! The Lonely House 2011-01-13T03:01:04.920Z Still up, up, crept the iron conqueror, until it broke the veil of mist in cloudland, up where the trees were jeweled with dewdrops and the track reeked with the wine of the sky. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z The moon was shining brightly; the dewdrops on leaves and flowers glittered in its rays; Felix could see by his watch that the castle clock was a quarter of an hour behind time. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z The fields that had been already cleared, glittered like gold-embroidered tapestry, and the meadows, where the grass was beginning to recover from the stroke of the scythe, were spangled with a thousand dewdrops. The Undying Past The popular name of this species is applied on account of a peculiar feature of the larva, which sucks up the dewdrop that lies on its food plant. Butterflies and Moths (British) And there were two big dewdrops of tears on her cheeks to show how sorry she was for the canary bird—or, perhaps, for the spaniel. Deep Moat Grange Only mop up the dewdrops, and we’ll turn on the sun machine. Into the Primitive The liquids of nature, streams and clouds and dewdrops, affect the same rounded forms as those of living organisms. The Mechanism of Life When dewdrops on the clover And tender grasses glitter! The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book being a new edition in one volume of "The Hollow Tree" and "In The Deep Woods" with several new stories and pictures added Here and there a diamond sparkled among the waxy petals, as if a dewdrop fresh from its native skies had fallen there. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 O festal mornings, calm in loveliness, Rose whose pure face the dewdrops all caress, Birds flying toward us, like some presage white, Gardens of sombre shade or frailest light! Poems of Emile Verhaeren She had been out bareheaded, under the trees, and dewdrops gleamed in her hair. A Yankee from the West A Novel Instead, we had some delicate fish, served with most refreshing cucumbers on ice, the sparkle of which, in the dim shaded light of our room, looked like dewdrops. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 Out in the open country fields, With the green grass blowing merrily, The daisies nod and the dewdrop shine, And the sunbeams dance right cheerily. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins Did you ever wade through a wheat field in June—or the long grass of a meadow—when the pearly dewdrops hung in clusters on the bearded grain, shining like brilliants in the morning sun? Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. Buddhism finds in a dewdrop the symbol of that other microcosm which has been called the soul.... Lafcadio Hearn The golden glow of morning trembled on every leaf, and sparkled on every dewdrop. On the Heights A Novel His little heart is often terrified; The blush of morning, in his cheek, turns pale; 255 Its pearly dewdrop trembles in his eye; His harmless eye! and drowns an angel there. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes "A lassie and laddie come tripping along, Like the fair day smiling brightly; They pluck the flowers and they hum a song As they shake off the dewdrops lightly." Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins Perhaps everyone who has lived in the country has noticed that on a summer's morning when the grass is laden with dewdrops a gravel walk or a dusty road will be perfectly dry. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. A dewdrop hanging to the lattice of his window; the sighing of the wind in the bamboo-grove, the moon rising above his garden fence, were all full of soul secrets, soul life. Lafcadio Hearn Only small beads sprang out on the shiny surface of Mr. Binswanger's head like dewdrops on the glossy surface of leaves, and twice his fork slipped and clattered from his hand. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole The dewdrops were all diamonds, the wreathed vapors were damascened by moonlight, before she heard the grate of wheels and the click of the gate and another murmur of voices. Carnival She kept very still, for the early dewdrops still clung to the delicate web. Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse Tears, like dewdrops, fill the child's eyes, and he looks around in vain for his companion of the day. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 Faraway over the plain beneath us we could see the dewdrops sparkling on the grass and in the bush sprays; but there was no game in sight, not even a small buck. The White Shield I well remember how he dealt in such alliteration as “the dewdrop glittering in the glen.” Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself She saw bright eyes a shining in dewdrops on her path—she returned unto the palace, she entered in a bath. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series The witch's feather in your hat has changed the dewdrop into a diamond. Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse This time, there were tears, glistening and falling slowly, glistening like crystal dewdrops in sunlight, and falling in softly tinkling shower like spilled jewels. Shock Treatment Banfy hurried toward his trembling wife whose voice was too stifled for words, clasped both her hands, delicate as dewdrops, and looked kindly into the dreamy eyes. The Golden Age in Transylvania Some compare them to a swarm of bees; some to a rosette of diamonds; some to dewdrops. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Trees and bushes were covered with hoarfrost and looked like a forest of white coral, while on every twig glittered frozen dewdrops. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series The undulating roll of veldt, green after the recent rains, and radiant in the golden morning, sparkled with innumerable dewdrops. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland There's a dewdrop shining bright On the grass by the sun undried, It's a tear that fell in the night When the lonesomest fairy cried. A Little Freckled Person A Book of Child Verse She is in perfect health, and as pure and as fresh as a dewdrop. Waldfried A Novel There it lay, all fresh and wonderful, sparkling with diamond dewdrops. The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers Drops of water lay upon them; whether they were dewdrops or tears no one could say. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series A gold ring was hanging down from each yellow curl of her golden hair; her eyes were blue, clear, and cloudless, like a dewdrop on the top of the grass. The Irish Fairy Book "Flowers are pretty things in the head when rubies make the pinks, and the dewdrops are all diamonds." The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life A soft light shone through the tapestries, and the dewdrops on the roof sparkled like diamonds. Miss Muffet's Christmas Party With pearly dewdrops Gangá loads the gale That waves the dark pines towering o'er the vale, And breathes in welcome freshness o'er the face Of wearied hunters when they quit the chase. The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa He found it in dewdrops, in the spray of waterfalls, in drops shaken from the oar in rowing. Logic, Inductive and Deductive When morning appears, and night melts away, Then comes the bright, dull, or enlivening day; The dewdrops like pearls on the flowers are shining, But the sunbeams to dry them are quickly inclining. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind As sweetheart breezes kiss the blooms, And dewdrops drink the moonlight's gleams, My soul shall kiss her lips' perfumes, And drink the magic of her dreams. The Garden of Dreams After a while Mell wiped away the very last tear of agonized pride, which hung like a dewdrop on her long curling lashes. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 The leaf of every tree, shrub, and plant, she knew familiarly and lovingly in its own characteristic beauty; and she was loth to shake one dewdrop from the sweetbrier rose. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) There were tears hanging like tremulous dewdrops on the long jet under-lashes,—and the bright red in her polished cheeks, and the crimson curves of her parted lips made a picture pleasant to contemplate. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The moon, large, full, brilliant, was directly overhead, and the stars, like magnificent dewdrops, hung richly in the sky. In the Brooding Wild In the green fields dewdrops were caught by millions in the spiders' webs, sparkling like diamonds in the first rays of sunshine. Ditte: Girl Alive! The autumn spiders had covered it with a silvery pall, and on the glistening veil the dewdrops sparkled in the sun like myriads of diamonds. Timar's Two Worlds The harmony was like the melting of musical dewdrops, and sang, without words, of sorrow and death. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) "Oh, Doctor," she cried piteously, the tears like great dewdrops on her lashes: "Baby has been so bad—I thought, once, I had lost him!" Banked Fires Sometimes you may think you have a pearl; but it is only a dewdrop into which a ray of light has happened to fall. Talkers With Illustrations No sad vicissitude of fate, no overwhelming catastrophe in nature deforms his page: but the dewdrop glitters on the bending flower, the tear collects in the glistening eye. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature They saw it no more; but over the white blossom where it had rested there hovered a tiny fairy in shining, changing sheen, her wand sparkling with dewdrops. Happy Days for Boys and Girls And it lies quite close to us, hidden in every dewdrop and gust of wind, in every brook and valley, in every little plant and animal. Eighth Reader For example: "Look how the fair one weeps! the conscious tears Stand thick as dewdrops on the bells of flowers." The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order Her eyes were shut and her eyelashes wet, just as you might see the fringe of a flower hung with dewdrops of a morning. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The dewdrops on the summer morn Sparkle upon the grass; The village children brush them off, That through the meadows pass. Happy Days for Boys and Girls This morning I saw a hummingbird taking its bath in the big dewdrops on a small ash-tree. Under the Maples I was watching the sun rise over the cotton-fields, and watching the dewdrops glittering on the corn, thinking of the beautiful heiress of Whitestone Hall. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love The formation of dewdrops in such cases is the continuation of the irrigation process of the plant for supplying the leaves with water from the soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" In proportion as the sun broke through the bank of cloud, burning away the mist and drawing jeweled rays from the dewdrops, the new recruit in revolution found his zeal more eager to begin. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Zephyrs from the fragrant lilacs Fanned his little rosy face, And the heart’s-ease, gemmed with dewdrops, Smiled at him with gentle grace. Happy Days for Boys and Girls I also saw that where a suspended dewdrop becomes a jewel, or displays rainbow tints, you can see only one at a time—to the right or left of you. Under the Maples Through the steamy exhalations from the ground, and dancing on the dewdrops which hang heavy upon every blade or ear, the early sun is shining. Burma Peeps at Many Lands Sad Scotia wept, and still on valour's shrine Our glistening tears, like pearly dewdrops, shine, To tell the world how Albyn's hero bled, And treasure still the memory of her dead. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Within thy brow a glory plays; Shrine, blossom, dewdrop, all are bright With quenchless rays. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 Ah, little you know, ye daughters of Jove, The sweetness of poverty wedded to love; Untrammeled by fashion, unsated by sin, With the feeling that life and the dewdrop are kin. The Loom of Life Passing these, we rode over a smooth green lawn glittering with large bright dewdrops, and dismounted in front of the seminary-gate. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 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 His years are chrisms of brightness in time's wave— Thine are as dewdrops in the nightshade's bell! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 What a sight it was––that dark, swollen, yet powerful frame lying on the coral pavement, and the innocent child, like a dewdrop on the leaf of a red tropical flower, nestling close beside it! Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life Rivanone sighed and two tears stood like dewdrops in her flower eyes. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts On his bone-encased chest a bright drop of water formed, like a dewdrop or a teardrop, but big as a man's head. Shaman Drops of water were upon them—whether they were dewdrops or tears nobody could tell. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The ill effects of last night had been absorbed with about as much apparent effort as a gigantic sponge might display in absorbing a dewdrop. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China The dewdrop sparkles like a diamond as the sun's rays fall upon it. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity The dewdrops were still sparkling upon the terraced lawns like little globules of flashing silver, and the tumult of noisy songsters from the thick shrubberies alone broke the sweet silence. The New Tenant The scent of the rose, or say the dewdrop on it. The Dop Doctor And where at the top it spread into graceful, hanging, feathery seed-ears, it was hung with large dewdrops, reflecting all the colours of the rainbow. The Rhodesian There 's a woman like a dewdrop, she 's so purer than the purest. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature "The British Critics" themselves are a host, "Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning; dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Her very tears became her, as dewdrops do a rose. Captain Desmond, V.C. Her hair, undulating toward the ears, shone with a blue luster; a rose in her chignon trembled on its mobile stalk, with artificial dewdrops on the tips of the leaves. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Tall, sparse grasses leant over and whispered to each other outside the tent, and every ear and every seed was hung with a lovely brilliant dewdrop. The Rhodesian Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The Spirits of Night can no longer enchain thee, The breeze of the morn now is striving to shake Sweet dewdrops like gems from the copsewood and forest tree. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle Not a cloud had yet scarred the heavens, not a dewdrop had glistened in the morning sunlight. Winning the Wilderness She began to unloosen from her hood her jewel, which was a rose fashioned out of pink shell work set with huge dewdrops of diamonds and crowned with a little crown of gold. The Fifth Queen Crowned Summer was breaking, and the Autumn sunshine was drying the last dewdrops from the grass. The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia A dewdrop on the petal of a flower is nearly globular; but it is not quite a globe, because the gravitation presses it against the flower and somewhat distorts the shape. The Story of the Heavens Mirrors of morn Whence the dewdrop is born, Soft tints of the rainbow and skies— Sisters of song, What a shadowy throng Around you in memory rise! Poems Does the great ocean need the little dewdrop that hides in the bosom of the rose? Personal Friendships of Jesus As a dewdrop mirrors the loving sky, I would see myself in thy tear wet eye. Three Women Unweariedly he waits from day to day, Nor knows, as I know now, that when we meet, 'Twill be as dewdrop on the hawthorn spray,— The ultimate of God at last complete. Pan and Æolus: Poems The tree of knowledge no longer wept tears of blood, for the dewdrops shone like glittering stars. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen They threw off their dazzling white plumage, and two lovely female forms were revealed, as like each other as two dewdrops. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales And those dewdrop diamonds were all the jewels he got for his night's work. Cornwall's Wonderland It is true that we cannot pretend to discover on a greensward so often crossed and re-crossed as the poetic language of England many morning dewdrops still glistening on the grasses. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature Webster. with the pearly dewdrops that shine and glisten in the early sun! The Girl Wanted His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewdrops; and there came by a roebuck, and said, 'What ailest thee, that thou weepest blue and red tears?' Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The Rainbow's Daughter found three tiny dewdrops on a crystal plate, and Button-Bright had a big slice of apple-pie, which he devoured eagerly. The Road to Oz Nothing is cheap and coarse, neither dewdrops nor snowflakes. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year But it is helpful to remember that the glorious orb itself contains infinitely more light than all the dewdrops ever did or ever will reflect. Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. Microbes in their dewdrops, seeds in their winds, stars in their courses, worms in their apples, answer it, and the hordes of the ants in their ant-hills run before it. The Lost Art of Reading There lay a pair of white satin ones, beaded in tiny crystal beads that shone like dewdrops. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation The servant Pumper is a man of feeling, who grieves that the horses trod the dewdrops from the blades of grass. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century His manly voice entreating calls As softly as the dewdrop falls. Indian Legends of Minnesota And the sum-total of all human goodness, and tenderness, and love is but as the dewdrops to the sun. Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. Can you put the dewdrops back on the flowers And make them sparkle and shine? Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Said this little fairy, “Let’s brew some dewdrop tea.” Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk It was only half an hour past daylight, and the dewdrops were still glistening on the grass and shining on the tree-tops. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Inside it was a great globe of water surrounded by air—a colossal dewdrop. The Planet Strappers He saw little dewdrops of water occurring at irregular intervals. Tam o' the Scoots The sun was now clear of the horizon, and revealed the glittering dewdrops that hung on grass and flower. Roger Trewinion There by his cressy beds Dissolved and dreaming Dreams that distilled in a dewdrop All the purple of night, All the shine of a planet. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Here is a transparent dewdrop; in it is the flame of the last ray of sun. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Lucette of Paris swimming nude in a gigantic dewdrop—possible where gravity was almost nil. The Planet Strappers And remember, 'The dewdrop that hangs from the rowan bough Is fine as the proudest rose can show.' Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls They no longer walked lightly; their shoulders became bent; their eyes no longer were as bright as dewdrops. The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Archly Lilith took The rose from her bright hair, and lightly shook The dewdrop from its heart. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman A dewdrop twinkles into green and gold as the sunlight falls on it. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The dewdrop with the raindrop blends; The tiny stream they form then wends Its way the grasses through. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems And in the brightness of that smile the tears on her lashes were dewdrops that had caught the morning sunlight. The House of Toys To-morrow I shall feel like a trustee, for I am going to invent some marvellous pale paradoxes for the children—paradoxes like early dewdrops with the sun upon them. The Green Carnation Though fair her gems of azure hue Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining, I've seen an eye of lovelier blue More sweet through watery lustre shining. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) I know a way Of catching dewdrops on a night in May, And threading them upon a spear of green, That through their sides translucent may be seen The sparkling hue that emeralds display. The Admiral's Caravan Thus is it with our influence here; Each look, each word, each deed, Is like the rain, or dewdrop clear— Though tiny things they now appear, They to the ocean lead. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems Said the Raisin to the Almond, 'I was once as full of wine As a dewdrop is of sunlight, And a glossy skin was mine.' Chatterbox, 1906 Oh, fair are the blossoms it bears for all, And fragrant the breath of its golden bells; Glad is the music they ring for you, From the perfumed depths where the dewdrop dwells. Nestlings A Collection of Poems There were dewdrops in acorn cups, and honey on the wax. Woodland Tales And the whole little lake, to use the expression of an enthusiastic German , is "as green as the dewdrop on a lettuce leaf." The Gold of Chickaree Lo! where, from the bountiful hand of the Brothers Grimm, fall two bright dewdrop of tradition upon the pure opening flower of childhood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 She wears a necklet of dewdrops, and dew-drops sparkle in her dress and in her hair. The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book And how the tints of emerald landscape Were caught from the sunlight on cloud and sky; How dewdrops, gems from the crystal fountains, Were showered o'er earth from realms on high. Nestlings A Collection of Poems The dew lay heavily upon the earth, and the thick foliage of the trees sparkled with the glittering dewdrops bowing their branches beneath its weight. Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer When the sun came glinting through the leaves and set the dewdrops to glistening and the whole world to laughing, he whistled louder than ever, just for joy. Plantation Sketches He suddenly remembered her as she was that night in her little rose-leaf gown with all the dewdrops twinkling on her. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa On one occasion he performed the sacred office for a dying Huron with some rain or dewdrops which were still clinging to an ear of green corn which had been thrown to him for food. Canada You are welcome as dewdrops when parched are the flowers; You will brighten the days till they shrink into hours. Nestlings A Collection of Poems In the slaty twilight the garden's verdure was lustreless, grass and foliage uniformly sombre save where dewdrops showed like beryls. Chivalry The simplest conceivable form of such life would be the dewdrop, which owes its existence to the balance between the condensation of aqueous vapour in the atmosphere and the evaporation of its substance. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays "You were so sweet that night of the dance, Gay," he said, "in your little pinky gown, with the dewdrops winking on you!" Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa The dewdrop on the larkspur's mouth O should it then be quenchèd not? Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published “Do you mean the dewdrop?” smiled the beetle, rather superior. The Adventures of Maya the Bee Dawn has touched with fairy finger All things near, Left a dewdrop on each blossom Like a tear Sing! merry thrush, on high To the breaking summer sky. Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks The diamonds were all small except the central ones, that were like the dewdrops at the tips of narrow leaves. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 But what could be done with a slip of a girl who stood there with a folded lace butterfly around her and looked like a passionate tea-rose twinkling with dewdrops? Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa It made him think of short grasses and the dewdrop glittering in the wet leaf; then the sky shone blue against a tremble of airy leaf. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure It is my masterpiece that I am finishing to-night,—a woven counterpane, light as air, threaded with sparkling dewdrops. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme He was terribly thirsty, and struggled to reach a dewdrop which hung above his head, but his hind legs were paralyzed and powerless. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character The stone shone on his breast like a dewdrop. Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children He was, by the way, very complimentary about the way in which the 15th Brigade had behaved all through, and cast dewdrops upon us with both hands. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 The east was now pink, the air here very pure and cool and still, each feather of broom sedge holding its row of diamond dewdrops. The Long Roll "Of course you won't find dewdrops in there," she continued hastily. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme Imagine a black pearl imprisoning a diamond; imagine a dewdrop trembling on polished jet; add to these beauties life, and you will have the dormouse eye. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Lavinia counted three tomatoes, a bunch of grapes, poppies and pansies, wheat ears and blackberry-vines, a red, red rose, and one small lettuce, with glass dewdrops and green grubs lavishly sprinkled over it. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag As well might he write, "Could we but set the dewdrop with our diamonds! could we but stay the rainbow in our skies!" Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida After the rain the roads were just pleasantly wet; dewdrops hung on the corn blades, blackberries were ripening, ox-eye daisies fringed the banks of red earth. The Long Roll The Spider was still struggling, but more feebly, and Miss Muffet could hear him muttering to himself, "Grey, threaded with silver and sparkling dewdrops, oh, my masterpiece!" More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme He was walking slowly up and down, now and then throwing his arm out with the action of a sower, and the seeds he sowed sparkled like dewdrops in the moonlight. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Each blade stood up still and straight, bearing its string of dewdrops. The Daughters of Danaus Each of these fairies was of the height of a small cambric needle and both together would not have weighed much more than the one-sixteenth part of four dewdrops. Second Book of Tales The grass looked greener than usual, the dewdrops more brilliant as they sparkled on leaf and blade and branch in the rays of an unclouded sun. The Young Fur Traders "Can you tell me where the best dewdrops——" he began. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme I go to seek the starshine on the waves, To count the dewdrops on the grassy hill, I go to gather flowers that grow on graves, The worlds' wall closes round my prisoned will. A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry They saw it reflected in every brook, in every star, in every flower, in every dewdrop. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power The tiny feet disturb not the dewdrops, as on the rose of Sharrion's breast they lie. The Secret of the Creation A great water drinker, she evidently thinks the stone is some strange kind of dewdrop, hence her persistent efforts to bite it. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals “By de holy poker, Massa Easy, but my shirt stick to my ribs,” cried Mesty, whose black face was hung with dewdrops from their rapid course. Mr. Midshipman Easy Bella’s got some red roses with dewdrops on ’em, an’ a caterpillar just like life. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May I. "A pebble on the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river; A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever." Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power And been judged in the dewdrops by the morning star. The Secret of the Creation A dewdrop is rounded by the same laws which shape the planetary spheres or the sun himself; and Christians but half trust Christ if they do not imitate Him. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. You are a rose, too—a real, sweet garden rose, with the dewdrops on its leaves. Flaming June The moisture hung in dewdrops on the Editor’s cap, Margot’s hair curled damply on her forehead; but they felt neither cold nor discomfort. Big Game A Story for Girls There were dewdrops on the leaves, or what looked like dewdrops. The Independence of Claire Say to her its brightness was dimmer than the remembrance of her eyes; and its price meaner than the dewdrop on her lip. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Yes—look at the beautiful Rose, radiant with dewdrops, ruddy in the morning light, or dreamily lovely, with the moonbeams melting through her moon-shaped petals. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The dewdrops reflected the light as perfectly as the great ocean. Northland Heroes In the relationships in which I lived, I was less than the flower or the dewdrop; a being endowed with power and with an immortal soul! The Home Then came wax flowers, beaded artfully with glass, so as to appear spangled with dewdrops. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland One morning when the world was brimming with spring, two little girls ran out into a garden where the dewdrops and the sunlight and God had wrought the miracle of a hundred full-blown roses. Sermons on Biblical Characters Nay, even the wind no longer played with the leaves, the sunbeams no longer drank the dewdrops from the grass, and the river had ceased to flow. Roumanian Fairy Tales "A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river: A dewdrop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak forever." How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune The flower yields odour and delight to man, it nourishes the insect with its sweetness; the dewdrop gives strength to the leaf on which it falls. The Home The sun rose up over the mountains, the sky was clear as a dewdrop, and a bracing breeze swept down the valley, making music through the quivering reeds. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories They were tending the woodland plants that hang their golden blossoms in the pathways and carrying up the dewdrops that sparkle like diamonds from their leaves in the daybreak. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 The dewdrops on the greensward before the cottage door, they suffered not to be polluted with blood. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet, And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. Everyman's Land Every bough and twig is strung with ice beads, frozen dewdrops, and the whole tree sparkles cold and white like the vShah of Persia’s diamond plume. The Literary World Seventh Reader All through the poem, thoughts flash into beauty as dewdrops on morning flowers flash into amethyst, and ruby, and diamond, and all manner of precious stones. A Hero and Some Other Folks The meadow is not green, but blue and golden The flowers like dewdrops bright; When it is night, they burn and glow and glisten— Men call them stars of light. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Tender as the dewdrop is her glance; yet cold as snow is her behaviour. A Book of Quaker Saints Let us take our baskets early To the meadows green, While the wild-flowers still are pearly With the dewdrops' sheen. Child Songs of Cheer They seemed to be a multitude of dewdrops shaken from the depths of some big rose, and dropped into the midst of a rainbow. The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand XIV Autumn The silv'ry dewdrops that in autumn light Upon the moors, must surely jewels be; For there they hang all over hill and lea, Strung on the threads the spiders weave so tight. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan And gently led them by the crystal streamlets, Bade them on dewdrops feast, And showed them where the silver moon was rising To light them from the east. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 A dewdrop out of this ocean would, if shed upon all that are in the heavens and on earth, suffice to enrich them with the bounty of God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. The Advent of Divine Justice This," says Henderson, "was the day of the Lord's power, in which multitudes offered themselves most willingly, like dewdrops of the morning. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation We might have— "Early rose of Springs first dawn, Pearly dewdrops gem thy breast, Sweetest emblem of our hopes, Meetest flower for Paradise." History of English Humour, Vol. 2 "The least flower, with a brimming cup, may stand And share its dewdrop with another near." Faith Gartney's Girlhood Then at the last the wheel looked all white; and it overpassed in brilliance the translucent orb where the Florentine poet saw Beatrice in the dewdrop. The Well of Saint Clare The other little angels gathered astonished around him, staring at the strange playmate who had dewdrops in his eyes and made such awful faces. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World And even in cold November, when the mist lifted, while the dewdrops clustered thickly on the grass, one or two hung their heads under the furze. Nature Near London Single gems of the first water glistened like dewdrops in the Queen's ears, while upon her bosom as she breathed the three great Turgeneff diamonds caught and defiantly threw back the light. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Then, lightly sprinkling, o'er the pilot's brows The drowsy dewdrops from the leaves he threw. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor In the morning the blades of grass and the webs of the spiders are bespangled with pearly dewdrops. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Though fair her gems of azure hue, Beneath the dewdrop's weight reclining, I've seen an eye of lovelier blue, More sweet through watery lustre shining. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Their lips were joined, their two souls, like two dewdrops, rushed into one,—for the first time, and for the last! Among Famous Books Cobwebs will come among the stubble when the harvest is gathered in and on them will lie dewdrops that the moon will make into pearls. Flower of the Dusk "Come, my sweet boy," she said, dashing away the tears, as they came like dewdrops from her eyelids, and speaking to the infant on her knee, "it is time to go to bed." The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution And one can see dewdrops upon them, as is the way with roses!—the dewdrops from her eyes! Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul He would find delight in the colors of the rainbow, the glory of the morning, and the iridescence of the dewdrop. The Vitalized School Only a few of the stones which Rose wore caught the moonlight to any extent, but she was all of a shimmer and gleam, like a creature decked with dewdrops. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel The thoughts are thread-balls, the watchword withered leaves, the tears dewdrops, etc. Adventures in Criticism If God is throned in the clouds He is also tabernacled in the dewdrop and palaced in the bud and blossom. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Another change subdues them in the Fall, 135But saddens not; they still show merrier tints, Though sober russet seems to cover all; When the first sunshine through their dewdrops glints. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations In it we find the glory of the sunrise, the sparkling dewdrop, the song of the robin, the gentle mooing of the cows, the murmur of the brook, and the creaking of the mill wheel. The Vitalized School The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age He slept almost like a child, and awoke to look out upon a million points of sunlight sparkling in the dewdrops. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton I think the leaves peeped out and in At every change from cold to heat; The grass threw off a livelier sheen From dewdrops sparkling at our feet. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses His spear is "swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth when the dew of June is at the heaviest." History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 The various shaped leaves of the forest all around their village and near their nestlings are bespangled with myriads of dewdrops. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Like lightning in anger, in calmer moods like the gleam of dewdrops upon flowers. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross Methinks, their lips have never touched the cup of divine Knowledge, nor do they seem to have attained even a dewdrop of the showers of heavenly grace. The Kitáb-i-Íqán A dewdrop out of this ocean would, if shed upon all that are in the heavens and on the earth, suffice to enrich them with the bounty of God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh Nor can I ever hope to impart even a dewdrop of that which hath been decreed therein, as none is acquainted with its mysteries save God, its Creator and Fashioner, and His Manifestations. Gems of Divine Mysteries In the heart of it lies, like a dewdrop, a pale-green jewel called peridot. Greenwich Village Like the great German poet Goethe, he preferred to exercise his art in the fresh morning hours, when the dewdrops, as it were, lay bright upon his imagination and fancy. Life of Charles Dickens Happy dewdrop, known to God alone, think not of the rushing torrents of this world! The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse And, like a dewdrop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. Familiar Quotations They were extremely pretty, and by far the pleasantest things she had seen in this Vale; but even they had a sad little fragrance, and each eye had a dewdrop on it. The Garden of the Plynck What I thought to be a precious dewdrop is only a worthless diamond. Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling And again: On jujube-trees the blushing dewdrops falter; The peacock wakes and leaves the cottage thatch; A deer is rising near the hoof-marked altar, And stretching, stands, the day's new life to catch. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Love attracts love; mine darts towards Thee, and would fain make the abyss brim over, but alas! it is not even as a dewdrop in the ocean. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse Lion's hide, thou wear a, 58. --inane, dewdrop from the, 68. Familiar Quotations Many a hidden virtue sparkled forth, as the dewdrop glistens in the beams of the rising sun. In the Shadow of Death Each faculty tasked To perceive him has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked. Browning's Shorter Poems Said he: "Whenever a dewdrop clings To a gossamer thread, and glitters and swings, Deep in humility bow your head To a thing for a blundering rnortal's dread." The Glugs of Gosh The Lily of the valley asks but a single dewdrop, which for one night shall rest in its cup, hidden from all human eyes. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse Can you put the dewdrops back on the flowers, and make them sparkle and shine? Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors For as on flowers the dewdrops fall, As sunbeams break the storm-cloud's pall, As pardon comes to lives which blame Has crushed beneath its weight, so came Thy sympathy to me. Debris Selections from Poems How brightly the morning dewdrops twinkled on the leaves, like a sprinkling of liquid diamonds! Austin and His Friends And every cloud that sails the blue, And every dancing sunbeam too, And every sparkling dewdrop bright All know the Glugs quite well by sight. The Glugs of Gosh Are not the river and the brook," they urge, "of more use than a dewdrop? The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse A peridot for a dewdrop in a leaf of gold. Kenny I drink the sunshine showered past her lips As roses drain the dewdrop as it drips. Afterwhiles The dewdrops of the summer morn Display their silver sheen Upon the smoothly shaven lawn, And on the village green. New National Fourth Reader Below, the garden sloped away to a considerable distance, and the flowers still sparkling with the dewdrops lifted their heads timidly. Scenes in Switzerland I like to pretend that I'm down in the orchard, way early in the morning, with a fresh breeze blowing through the apple-blossoms and the dewdrops shining on every blade of grass. The Little Colonel's House Party Bubbles formed upon it,—all sizes of them—standing out like dewdrops upon leaves. The Poor Little Rich Girl Can we compress the ocean into a dewdrop? T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him But though they looked in possible and impossible places, no sign of the dainty gold locket with the turquoise forget-me-nots and the diamond dewdrops in their centers could the children find. Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun On every brow a dewdrop stood, They grew so scared and hot,— "I' the name of all that's great and tall, Who are ye, sir, and what?" The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood A gossamer robe of white with shining ornaments, and a wreath that seemed to sparkle with glittering dewdrops on her head. Verner's Pride "There's nought can harm thee in these silvered woods: no bird that pipes but love incites his throat, and never a dewdrop wells but whispers peace!" Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Through the garden, and out by the little wicket into the lane; across a field sparkling with dewdrops; over a stile; down another lane; over another stile, and into another field! Gladys, the Reaper Why, it was a great big dewdrop, right in the middle of a purple violet, that was growing underneath a shady fern. Uncle Wiggily's Travels The morning was pretty far advanced; the merry birds twittered in their dun covert, brushing the dewdrops from the boughs with their restless wings. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The Dawn-Fairy steps forward and shakes dewdrops from a bluebell over them, accompanying the action with a delightful song, "I'm up with early Dawning." The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Knells now the dewdrop to its fall, The sad wind sleeps no more to rove; Rest, for my arms ambrosial Ache for thy love! Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration And pretty soon, as he was still looking, a big, buzzing bumble bee buzzed along and stopped to take a sip of the dewdrop. Uncle Wiggily's Travels You took a bite and lo! it had vanished like a sweet dewdrop, leaving in your mouth a taste as of nectar, and clover-honey, and velvet cream. Half Portions Oh, see what you miss when you slumber so long— The dewdrops, the beautiful sky! McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader A healthy shack can "dewdrop" a pretty heavy chunk of stone on top of a car—say anywhere from five to twenty pounds. The Road Pippa, with all her ideality and her upward gaze, has her roots in earth; she is not the dewdrop but the flower. Robert Browning And the stone glittered in the sunshine just like diamonds or dewdrops. Uncle Wiggily's Travels To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Each star was to me like a dewdrop created to slake my thirst. The Dangerous Age And not a dewdrop fell from grass till midday, and wind would not touch a beast's tail until nones. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes The little "H.C., six years old," is "a dewdrop which the morn brings forth," that "at the touch of wrong, without a strife, Slips in a moment out of life." Robert Browning They would like to paint all the leaves and fruit on the trees, all the flowers on the grass, even all the dewdrops. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The dewdrop lies in the flower's cup, Mother snuggles the babies up. Gerda in Sweden Still she was silent; but the tears gathered slowly in her eyes, and welled over and lay upon her velvet cheek like dewdrops on the leaves of a soft dark tulip. Saracinesca Nancy took the pretty necklace, and held it so that it sparkled like dewdrops. Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times The moonbeams now glisten on the double-barrel; and a bright sparkle glitters here and there as a dewdrop catches a ray. The Amateur Poacher All our talented performers had tuned their instruments, scraped, fluted, twanged, jingled, and shawmed to their hearts' content, and had resined their fiddlesticks upon the freshest of dewdrops. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 In some happier clime the Rosebud may revive again with all the dewdrops in its bosom. Twice Told Tales He puts the dew of His blessing into the chalice of the tiniest flower, that it may ‘share its dewdrop with another near.’ Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Their eloquence in the sacred office matched the tenderness of the dove and the terribleness of thunder; distilled like the dewdrop and smote like pointed lightning. Sketches of the Covenanters The nurture of these years is as silent as that of the dewdrop upon the blade of grass, but it is as real. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Soon the whole garden, warm and caressed by the sun, returned to life, and dewdrops like diamonds glittered on the leaves and the old neglected garden on that morning looked young and gaily decked. The Schoolmaster It was scarcely full-blown, for some of its delicate red leaves curled modestly around its moist bosom, within which two or three dewdrops were sparkling. Twice Told Tales It is the same force in various forms that rolls in the thunder or gleams in the dewdrops, that paints the butterfly's feathers or flashes in a star. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) And subsequently formed dew-drops would carry in their substance a particle of the foreign matter brought back home by the previous generation of dewdrops, and would thus be a little different from their predecessors. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga The dewdrops hang on the bending grass, A dragon-fly cuts a sunbeam through. The California Birthday Book My heart is bitter, lilies, at your sweet; Why did the dewdrop fringe your chalices? Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. He found out that the fire of the sun could be brought down by a dewdrop. Back to Methuselah You are like the flower on which clings a dewdrop. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig And as the morning dewdrop shines upon the harebell, so shone the tears of gratitude that filled her deep blue eyes. The Thirsty Sword For human nature is one and the same in Griff or London or Florence, as all the amplitude of the sky is mirrored in the dewdrop. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities So passed the day in this delightful land: My heart was thankful for the English tongue— For English sky with feathery cloudlets spanned— For English hedge with glistening dewdrops hung. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The quick dropping of blood is called "faster than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth, when the dew of June is at the heaviest." Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold The dewdrops glistened upon grass-blade and foliage, and the bosom of the stream flashed merrily in the sunbeams. Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession When it comes to rain and dewdrops, dear Dr. Holmes, a "fresh-water college" has an advantage. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe A tear splashed down from the mother's eyes as she listened, and, falling on the tiny white flower as it lay in her husband's hand, glistened beside the dewdrop centre like another diamond. Two Little Knights of Kentucky I 'll wager she 's high of color and mighty of muscle and with equal vehemence says a thing is "strawdn'ry" whether it 's a dewdrop or a spouting volcano. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration And to feel that there was a magic spiderweb between this creature and me, new every day and invisible to everybody else and dripping with poetry like dewdrops! O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 I may see the thorny rose Stir and wake The dark dewdrop on her gold; But thy secret will she keep Half-divulged—yet all untold, Since a child's heart woke from sleep. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. The glorious sun seeks not to reclaim the lustre his rays have given to the tiny dewdrop. Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof It was a tiny flower of white enamel, with a diamond dewdrop in the centre. Two Little Knights of Kentucky Slumber sweet, my fairest baby, Slumber calmly, sleep— Peaceful moonbeams light thy chamber, In thy cradle creep; I will tell to thee a story, Pure as dewdrop glow, Close those two beloved eyelids— Lullaby, By-low! Russian Lyrics A fairy-ring of verdure, glittering with sunlight and dewdrops, and tuneful with the songs of birds, it seemed a morsel of paradise dropped from the cool blue of heaven. The Castle Inn Largest of all, great Sirius is flaming in the south, quivering with the ebb and flow of his light, sometimes with an emerald scintillation like a dewdrop on which a sunbeam glances. Hodge and His Masters In the slaty twilight the garden’s verdure was lustreless, the grass and foliage were uniformly sombre save where dewdrops showed like beryls. Chivalry That night, when the boys came down to dinner, no little white flower with its diamond dewdrop centre shone on the lapel of either coat. Two Little Knights of Kentucky So a self-conscious dewdrop might feel that it enfolded the morning sky, and such probably is the meaning of the Buddhist seer when he declares that "the universe grows I." Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Or comes it with refreshing power, Like dewdrops to the fainting flower, The miser's heart to bless? Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Mark had a quick memory of dewdrops in the garden of his home on Earth when he was a child. The Runaway Asteroid Pray, does she browse on dewdrops, as doth the grasshopper? Theocritus, translated into English Verse Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dewdrop from its wing; But I never mark'd its morning flight, I never heard it sing; For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Well," said Mr. Le Croix, bursting into a hearty laugh, "that is a capital joke; my little dewdrop talk of bringing up a child! Minnie's Sacrifice He could hold a hundred difficult balls in succession, but when a critical point came, he 'd let go of even a dewdrop. The Cruise of the Dazzler He recalled thinking that each dewdrop held a small sun. The Runaway Asteroid Song was the dewdrop which gathered during the long dark night of despondency, and was sure to glitter in the very first blink of the sun. Literary and General Lectures and Essays Polychrome found her dish of dewdrops, all fresh and sparkling, while Betsy was so lavishly served that she decided she had never in her life eaten a dinner half so good. Tik-Tok of Oz But my tears are as sweet as the dewdrops That fall on the roses in May; And my prayer, like a perfume from censers, Ascendeth to God night and day. Poems: Patriotic, Religious With what curiosity did I examine every dewdrop trembling upon the broad vine leaf and reflecting millions of rainbowhued rays! A Hero of Our Time Like the dewdrop in my bosom, Be thy guileless language, youth; Falsehood buyeth falsehood only, Truth must purchase truth. The Poems of Henry Timrod He recognises the sparkle of the diamond as well as that of the dewdrop. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Who taught me to dive into a dewdrop—to nestle in a nutshell—to gambol upon gossamer? The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Then Ferko buried his face in the ground till his eyes were damp with dewdrops, and in a moment he saw clearer than he had ever done in his life before. The Yellow Fairy Book The dewdrop morn may fall from off the petal of the sky, But all the deck is wet with blood and stains the crystal red. The Poems of Sidney Lanier Somewhere on this earthly planet In the dust of flowers to be, In the dewdrop, in the sunshine, Sleeps a solemn day for me. The Poems of Henry Timrod The Rainbow's Daughter found three tiny dewdrops on a crystal plate, and Button-Bright had a big slice of apple pie, which he devoured eagerly. The Road to Oz 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 sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn, even when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. The Time Machine The clouds already saw him, coming from afar; and soon every dewdrop would rejoice in his individual presence within it. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry From each object hung, like a dewdrop, the memory of some exquisite hour. The Indian Lily and Other Stories The dragon-fly sipped a little of the child's clear dewdrops and blue violet honey, and then whispered her winged words. Good Stories for Holidays Oh, is my soul, Hung like a dewdrop in thy grassy ways, Drawn up again into the rack of change Even through the lustre which created it? The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 Now, the way I met up with this skunkin' little dewdrop was this-like It was at Yuma, at a time when I was a kid of about nineteen. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West One—a dainty lady,— Evidently Queen,— Wore a gown of shady Moonshine and green, With a lace of gleaming Starlight that sent All the dewdrops dreaming Everywhere she went. Riley Child-Rhymes The bulblike glass dome is like an enormous dewdrop of beautiful proportions and iridescent color. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition When the morning came there stood the slender reed, glittering with dewdrops, and softly swaying in the breeze. Good Stories for Holidays From what sad star I know not, but I found Myself new-born below the coppice rail, No bigger than the dewdrops and as round, In a soft sward, no cattle might assail. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 One night a tiny dewdrop fell Into the bosom of a rose,— "Dear little one, I love thee well, Be ever here thy sweet repose!" A Little Book of Western Verse Who lent Chaucer his pictures, fresh as dewdrops from the womb of the morning? The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 The rosy glow had not yet disappeared from the horizon, although the sun had already risen and changed into opals the dewdrops upon the trees and grasses. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy The blue mist across the hills was melting into thousands of sparkling dewdrops, as the sun began to climb higher in the sky. The Quest of Happy Hearts "So it's no use my saying that I am sure his soul is a dewdrop." The Incomplete Amorist Seeing the rose with love bedight, The envious sky frowned dark, and then Sent forth a messenger of light And caught the dewdrop up again. A Little Book of Western Verse Go white my hair and skin go dry— But let my heart a dewdrop lie Inside those leaves when they go wrong, As fresh as when my life was young. Foliage In some happier clime, the Rosebud may revive again with all the dewdrops in its bosom. Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales") Lest I be accused of infinite arrogance, let me remind my reader that the sun is reflected in a dewdrop as in the ocean. Wilfrid Cumbermede No, don't explain that dewdrops don't harden Into diamonds. The Incomplete Amorist Here sit you down; recount your perils o'er: Henceforth be this your home; and grieve no more: Plenty hath shower'd her dewdrops on my head; Care visits not my Table, nor my Bed. Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked. Robert Browning: How to Know Him Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish, Now are visions ne'er to vanish; 20 From thy spirit shall they pass No more, like dewdrops from the grass. Selections from Poe All fresh with the morn's balmy kiss would I haste, As the dewdrops upon me were glancing; When Aurora sets out on the roseate waste, And round her the breezes are dancing. Poems When He created the wine of Cana, He did that of His own will which He does when He distills the dewdrop in the clusters of the vine. Five Sermons Then over the long grass of the broad paddock, swift hoofs shaking off the dewdrops that yet hung sparkling in the sunshine. A Little Bush Maid Dear is the dewdrop to the flower, The old wall to the weary bee, And silence to the evening hour, And ivy to the stooping tree. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript And he says, 'She is "a woman like a dewdrop." A Touch of Sun and Other Stories One cannot give its beauty without the whole, more than one can separate the dewdrop from the morning-glory without losing the effect they make together. A Study of Hawthorne The thick mist had changed into bright, glittering dewdrops and the sun shone high in the heaven. The Path of Life Pray look at my marvels, wrought of pure gold; Bright are the sunbeams they gayly enfold; The elves call them king-cups, but, queen, they are thine; I've filled them with dewdrops instead of red wine. The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories I tell you, I would, if I could, breathe it into every human soul, every flower, every leaf, every dewdrop in the garden! Hunger There, oft would he bring from his soft sighing lute Wild strains to which, spell-bound, the nightingales listened; The wondering spirits of heaven were mute, And tears 'mong the dewdrops of morning oft glistened. Poems 1817 If every rose with gold were tied, Did gems for dewdrops fall, One faded leaf where Love had sighed Were sweetly worth them all. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Do you know the Trumpet-moss, with its red cups each holding its own little dewdrop? Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Oh, how art thou changed, since the light breath of morning Dispersed the soft dewdrops in showers from the tree! Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Each dewdrop, too, seemed to be more brilliant. After Long Years and Other Stories DEIRDRE—Nay, death has come before love, dear fostermother, and all I was has vanished like a dewdrop in the sun. Imaginations and Reveries But when the sun rises in the morning we shall turn into those pretty transparent dewdrops which hang from your petals. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories The rainbow strides across the sky, but there is a rainbow in every little dewdrop that hangs glistening on the blades of grass. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Heaven, however, retains his love for earth, and, mourning for her through the long nights, he drops many tears upon her bosom,—these, men call dewdrops. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day If you could look through a dewdrop into a salt-crystal, you would find it built up of an infinite number of squares just like the Great Pyramid. Historical Miniatures The dewdrop with its little rainbow has a miniature of the great arch that spans the earth and rises into the high heavens. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms But the flower shuddered at his kiss, and the transparent dewdrop that hung from its petal froze to ice at the instant. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories It was light and gauzy, like a silvery spider's web on the summer grass before sunrise, when pearly with dewdrops. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks The Greeks fabled Eos, the dawn-goddess, to have been so disconsolate at the death of Memnon, her son, that she wept for him every morning, and her tears are the dewdrops found upon the earth. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day They stroked her hair with their tiny fingers, they bathed her eyes with dewdrops and wiped them with the petals of a wild rose. Monitress Merle While the dewdrops that— "strewed A baptism o'er the flowers"— gave back in their million mirrors the reflected smiles of the cloudless and rejoicing sun. The Disowned — Complete "I am the dewdrop on the flower, the cloud in the sky, and the mist on the meadow," said the Mist. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories While the dewdrops that— "strewed A baptism o'er the flowers"— gave back in their million mirrors the reflected smiles of the cloudless and rejoicing sun. The Disowned — Volume 01 The bright dewdrops hung trembling from the branches of the trees, which at intervals overshadowed the road; and the sprightly music of the birds saluted the rising day. A Sicilian Romance No; but I've seen the dewdrops shining just like diamonds, and I've seen the mist make wonderful pixie castles in the moonlight. Monitress Merle By the effulgence of Thy affluent light Men learn the hidden mysteries of earth, Unlock the secrets of the starry heavens And solve the problem of each dewdrop's birth. Home Lyrics And one of her tears remained as a dewdrop and sparkled on the little blue flower. The Green Fairy Book Whilst I was advancing with full speed, the sunbeams began to shoot athwart the mountains, the plains to light up by degrees, and their shrubberies of myrtle to glisten with dewdrops. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. It was a nasty little wired dewdrop that got fixed in poor Monsieur de Beaupré's fur, and there they were: she still grasping her fork and he looking ready to eat her with annoyance. The Visits of Elizabeth Scarce has their empire ended, O'er the awakening earth, When morning, fresh and joyous, With dewdrops clad comes forth. Home Lyrics For so brief a space youth glitters like a dewdrop on the tree of life, glitters and is gone. Young Lives He felt that within him which rose up gigantic from the earth, and towered into eyries of space, from whence that morning star seemed like a dewdrop glittering low down upon the earth. The Worshipper of the Image The dewdrops which hung upon the stamens changed to diamonds before his eyes. De La Salle Fifth Reader She used to go out in the morning and pick them for her mother,—a whole apronful, purple, and pink, and white, with dewdrops on them. Men, Women, and Ghosts The little lawn looked very beautiful, sprinkled all over with a variety of wild-flowers, in whose small cups dewdrops glistened, prismatic as opals. A Romance of the Republic The dewdrops from the branches in sunless places were glistening brilliants in the gold of her hair. A Man and His Money There are the honeycombs of friendly bees, and the shelters of many a timid earth-born speck of life no bigger than a dewdrop, mysteriously small. The Worshipper of the Image This gave immense encouragement to an independent juryman, who evidently was determined to beard the lion in his den, and possibly shake off "the dewdrops of his British indignation." 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