 | Garden flowers - Flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...— " To the ground, In solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold, Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise fast by the Tree of Life Began to bloom." Nor is the mention of the amaranthine wreath peculiar to our great poet. Homer had long before told... | |
 | Flowers - 1847 - 392 pages
...— " To the ground, Tn solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold, Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise fast by the Tree of Life Began to bloom."" Nor is the mention of the amaranthine wreath peculiar to our great poet. Homer had long before told... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1848 - 414 pages
...diadem of tho With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold — Immortal Amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise,...Began to bloom, but soon, for man's offence, To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows And flowers aloft, shading the font of life, And where the... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...With. solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree...to bloom ; but soon, for man's offence, To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows ; And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where... | |
 | David Creamer - Hymns - 1848 - 488 pages
...the sublime poem, Paradise Lost. The beautiful passage in Milton, referred to, is as follows : — " Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise,...tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offense To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers, aloft, shading the fount... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...solemn adoration down they cast 351 Their crowns inwove /with amarant and gold Immortal amarant, a ngwer which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence 355 To Heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows; And flowers aloft shading the fount of life,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold ; Immortal amaranth ! a flower which once In Pat adise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence 355 " Thee, Father," frst they sung, " ommpotent, Immutable, immortul, infinite, Eternal King ; thee,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1849 - 310 pages
...confined to India and .North America. Only three species in Europe —flowers crimson. IMMORTALITY. Immortal Amaranth! a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree oflife Began to bloom; but soon, for man's offence, To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1850 - 476 pages
...To the ground, With solemn admiration, down they cast Tlieir crowns inwove with amaranth and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise,...Began to bloom, but soon for man's offence, To Heaven removed. With flowers that never fade, the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreathed with... | |
 | English essays - 1850 - 806 pages
...Bayone." Again, in Paradise Lost, iii. 349, is a well known passage about the amaranth : Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree...Began to bloom ; but soon for man's offence To Heaven removed, &c. Mr. Hunter, in a course of a valuable note, inquires, "Was this a purely original conception... | |
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The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began... 
