Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,
In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew—
Gay without toil, and lovely without art,
They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.


Poems (1773), "To a Lady, with some painted Flowers", p. 96.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld Quotes

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to...

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to...

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to...

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to...