. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. SPIDER OPHRYS. Though no warm or murmuring zephyr fan thy leaves with balmy wing, Pleased we hail thee, spotless blossom, Herald of the infant Spring. ******** White, as falls the fleecy shower, thy soft form in sweetness grows ; Not more fair the valley's treasure, not more sweet her lily blows. Drooping harbinger of Flora, simply are thy blossoms drest; Artless as the gentle virtues mansioned in the blameless ; So pleasing is the appearance of the Snowdrop, when she pierces th
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. SPIDER OPHRYS. Though no warm or murmuring zephyr fan thy leaves with balmy wing, Pleased we hail thee, spotless blossom, Herald of the infant Spring. ******** White, as falls the fleecy shower, thy soft form in sweetness grows ; Not more fair the valley's treasure, not more sweet her lily blows. Drooping harbinger of Flora, simply are thy blossoms drest; Artless as the gentle virtues mansioned in the blameless ; So pleasing is the appearance of the Snowdrop, when she pierces through, and expands her flower over, the snow; she seems to cast a smile upon the severity of winter, and to say to us, " I am come to calm your fears ; I am come to console you in the absence of bright days, and to reassure you of their return !" SPIDER OPHRYS (0. aramfera).—SKYL-L. Idmon of Colophon was in great repute as a dyer. He had a daughter Arachne, whose skill in weaving was such that in her pride she challenged Minerva to a contest in the art of weaving. Arachne wove a piece of cloth of so much beauty that the goddess could not find any fault in it, but tore it into pieces, at which the weaver was so grieved that she hung herself The rope was transformed into a cobweb, and Arachne into a spider, from which we infer that man learnt the weaving art from the spider, and first applied it in Lydia. The flower is a remarkable production of Nature, being one of those where she has produced in the vegetable kingdom, an imitation of animal life. Here we see, as it were, upon a plant the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879. London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
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