Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & co. · leaf 128
dec-orative. As for the Shirleys, they are childrenof the dawn, and inherit all its delicate, vivid,delicious suffusions of rose-color in every con-ceivable shade. Of the Poppy one of the greatmasters of English prose discourses in this wise.Speaking of the common wild Poppy of the Eng-lish fields,… … AN ISLAND GARDEN 8l The Poppys red effrontery,Till autumn spoils its fleering quite with rain,And portionless, a dry, brown, rattling craneProtrudes. Papaver Rhoeas is the common wild scarlet Poppythat both these writers describe. John Ruskinsays: I have in my hand a small red Poppywhich I gathered…
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