How suddenly the flowers bloom!
Two or three days ago I could not, or did not, find the leaves of the crowfoot. To-day, not knowing it well, I look in vain, till at length, in the very warmest nook in the grass above the rocks of the Cliff, I find two bright-yellow blossoms, which betray the inconspicuous leaves and all.
The spring flowers wait not to perfect their leaves before they expand their blossoms. The blossom in so many cases precedes the leaf; so with poetry? They flash out.
Spring flowers flash out –
the blossom precedes the leaf.
So with poetry?
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This year, at least, one flower hardly precedes another, but as soon as the storms are over and pleasant weather comes, all blossom at once, having been retarded so long.
This appears to be particularly true of the herbaceous flowers. How much does this happen every year?
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 28, 1852
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, All blossom at once.
This appears to be particularly true of the herbaceous flowers. How much does this happen every year?
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 28, 1852
The blossom in so many cases precedes the leaf. See May 10, 1852 ("How closely the flower follows upon, if it does not precede, the leaf! The leaves are but calyx and escort to the flower.")
As soon as the storms are over and pleasant weather comes, all blossom at once. See April 9, 1854 ("The flowers have blossomed very suddenly this year as soon as the long cold spell was over, and almost all together.")
Suddenly flowers!
As soon as the storms are over
all blossom at once.
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, All blossom at once.
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2024
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