Meteoric Flowers
Elizabeth Willis

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• The Similitute of This Great Flower
• Sympathetic Inks • Her Mossy Couch • The Great Egg of Night • The Steam Engine • The Nettle • Of the Gulf Stream • A Description of the Poison Tree • Grateful as Asparagus • The Oldest Part of the Earth • This Circumstance is Worth Further Attention • Devil Bush • Glittering Shafts of War • Verses Omitted
• On the Resemblance of Some Flowers to Insects • The Principal Catastrophe • Irritative Fevers • The Skirt of Night • Of Which I Shall Have Occasion to Speak Again • The Happiest of Poets • Diana's Trees • Her Bright Career • Phosphorescent Trains • Expiring Groans • The Most Powerful Machine in the World • Plants Possess a Voluntary Power of Motion • Buds and Bulbs • Verses Omitted by Mistake • Pictures Connected by a Slight Festoon of Ribbons • The Portland Vase • Oil and Water • Rosicrucian Machinery • Tiptoe Lightining • With New Prolific Power • Viewless Floods of Heat • The Ghost of Hamlet • Near and More Near • Hercules Conquers Achelous • Departure of the Nymphs Like Northern Nations Skating on the Ice
• Bright O'er the Floor • Solar Volcanos • Errata • Loud Cracks from Ice Mountains Explained • Why No New Planets are Ejected from the Sun • Ancient Subterranean Fires • Immortal Sire • Plundering Honey • A Bird of Our Country • One Great TIde • Fuel of the Lower People • In Flowers Concealed • Accidental Breezes • The Earth's Nucleus • Primeval Islands • Ferns, Mosses, Flags • Note of the Text • Acknowledgments  




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