"Painted cup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bowers; When birds and insects on the wing Made all the air with music ring; When sunshine smiled on dell and knoll, Two Ducks set forth to take a stroll. 'Twas morning; and each grassy bank Of cooling dew had deeply drank— Each fair young flower was holding up Its sweet and freshly painted cup, Filled with bright dew drops, every one; Gay, sparkling treasures for the sun, Who bears them lightly to the sky, Holds them as vapor far on high, Till with his rays in dazzling tints, The rainbow on the cloud he paints. But our two ...
— The Ducks and Frogs, - A Tale of the Bogs. • Fanny Fire-Fly
... their rounded heads like the waves of a big sea. There were many lovely flowers, vetches of several kinds, blue, white, and pencilled, twining among the grass. A beautiful white-belled flower, that was like the "Morning glory," (Convolvulus major,) and scarlet-cups [FN: Erichroma, or painted cup] in abundance, with roses in profusion. The bottom of this ravine was strewed in places with huge blocks of black granite, cushioned with thick green moss; it opened out into a wide flat, similar to the one at the mouth of the valley of the Big Stone. [FN: The mouth of this ravine is ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill |
