 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the houghs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, still prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy garden-state,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here, at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : Here, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate; After a place so pure and sweet, What... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at юте fruit-tree's mossy root, ruó* 1649 S MH II Г.1 n.KR. Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepaid for longer night, Wares in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state, While... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...In this delicious solitude. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, As at some fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flow'rs and herbs the dial new, Where from above the milder sun... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruiHree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings; And, still prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy garden-state,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then wets and claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight. Waves in its plumes the various... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, M y soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings. Then wets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight. Waves in its plumes the various... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then wets and claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight. Waves in its plumes the various... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, :,... | |
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Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting... 
