15 Words to use with fragrances
~The Wood Orchid.~ A butterfly, wing-weary, came to find A sweet seclusion from the amorous wind, Deep in the pine woods, where the dusky trees Shut in the forest's sounding silences With close-twined boughs from which the breeze has blown The fragrance-breathing fragments of the cone.
Pure was the lustre of the orient ray, That joyful wak'd Alzira's nuptial day: 110 Her auburn hair, spread loosely to the wind, The virgin train, with rosy chaplets bind; The scented flowers that form her bridal wreathe, A deeper hue, a richer fragrance breathe.
While the fresh air with fragrance summer fills, And lifts her voice, heard jocund o'er the hills, All jubilant the waving woods display Her gorgeous gifts, magnificently gay!
The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of Spring: While, whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. 2.
These, with the gums and balsams of the woods, form the main local fragrance-fountains of the storm.
Jasmine and myrtle flowers are sought By winds that leave them fragrance-fraught.
RAJANI GANDHA (Polianthus Tuberosa.)A white tulip-shaped flower which blooms at night, from which circumstance it is called "the Rajani Gandha, (or night-fragrance giver)."
I see them wend their way On some refulgent morn of May, By hedgerows trim, of fragrance rare, Towards the hallowed House of Prayer!
Everything is refreshed and invigorated, a steam of fragrance rises, and the storm is finishedone cloud, one lightning-stroke, and one dash of rain.
For we laid him where wattles their sweet fragrance shed, And the tall gum trees shadow the stockman’s last bed.
What a delicious fragrance springs From the deep flagon, while it fills, As of hyacinths and daffodils!
who feel the snare Of Ishtar, lest ye tread upon the air; When ye her rosy chain of fragrance wear, When blindness strikes the eye, and deaf the ear Becomes, and heartstrings only lead you then, Till ye return to common sense again; Enthralled mayhap and captive led in chains, Ye then will leisure have to bear your pains; Or if perchance a joy hath come to thee, Through all thy joyous life, then happy be!
NIKITIN. NORTH AND SOUTH Knowest thou the land of fragrance ardent glowing?
So come to me, and all thy fragrance yield!
Where the wide heath in purple pride extends, And scatter'd furze its golden lustre blends, Closed in a green recess, unenvy'd lot! 90 The blue smoak rises from their turf-built cot; Bosom'd in fragrance blush their infant train, Eye the warm sun, or drink the silver rain.