The lilac bends its fresh fragrant flowers over the dead man's head; the swallow passes again—"twit, twit;" now the men come with hammer and nails, the lid is placed over the dead man, while his head rests on the dumb book—so long cherished, now closed for ever!
But I am fragrant with perfume, for close to my gates most lovely roses bloom.
The architect had planted it upon Thorwaldsen's grave, where it bloomed as an emblem of 'the beautiful' and yielded fragrant red rose-leaves to be carried as mementoes to distant lands.
It seemed as though the sound came from a church, deep in the calm, fragrant wood, and thither people looked with devout feelings.
that it were always spring in the fragrant beechwood!
How fragrant and beautiful it was!
Fresh and fragrant roses hung over the little palings.
The apple-trees were in full blossom, and the fragrant elders bent their long green branches down to the stream which wound round a smooth lawn.
All the branches were loaded with flowers, each flower as beautiful and as fragrant as a rose; and, had any one tasted them, he would have found them sweeter even than jam.
The winged songster serenades the fragrant flowers.
How peaceful and silent it was as we walked on through the thick, wild thyme, still fragrant, though the sun had scorched the leaves.
Behind the broad fragrant leaves lurks the goddess of Death, and her welcome kiss shall breathe fever into thy blood.
"ALONG the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, and fresh and fragrant is this wood; hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring.
Its lush green forests, filled with fragrant flowers, bubbling streams, and songbirds, are rich in historical interest as well as natural beauty.
Then the little elf flew in, and leaned his head on the delicate, fragrant walls.
" Then, they turned southward, and the air became fragrant with the perfume of spices and flowers.
After-wards he led her through fragrant gardens and lofty halls, but not a smile appeared on her lips or sparkled in her eyes.
Each little blade of grass shall be a green tree for me, each of your white petals a fragrant flower.
There, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the grape vines clung to each other with the friendly grasp of their green tendril fingers; while, by the wayside, lovely half-naked children were watching a herd of coal-black swine under the blossoms of fragrant laurel.
" Polly did not answer a single word, he continued to swing proudly to and fro; but a beautiful canary, who had been brought from his own warm, fragrant fatherland, the summer previous, began to sing as loud as he could.
