Flora's Lexicon/Convolvulus-1

by Catharine Harbeson Waterman

ONVOLVULUS, or SEA BINDWEED. Calystegia Soldanella. Class 5, Pentandria. Order: Monogynia. Botanists have recently separated this flower from the genus Convolvulus, and name it Calystegia, from two Greek words signifying pretty, and a covering, the calyx of the flower being covered by two leaf-like appendages called bracts.

UNCERTAINTY.

On the low sandy shore,Where, with a mighty roar,Breakers, with foam-crest hoar,  Long years have roll’d;—Where the turf never springs,Where the wind’s buffetingsTear the poor flower, that clings  To the rock cold.

There, Lady, low and lone,Where, on the storm-blast’s moan,Comes the wreck’d sailor’s groan,  Is my chill dwelling;—I hear the signal gun,Ere the storm’s work is done;I know that help is none,I know the good ship’s gone,I know the tempest’s won  The triumph ’tis telling.

Twamley.

Hope and fear alternate sway’d his breast,Like light and shade upon a waving field,Coursing each other, when the flying cloudsNow hide, and now reveal the sun.

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