 | William Empson - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 344 pages
...burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true. If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed. Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store. Flowers... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Authority in literature - 1996 - 276 pages
...burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...Trees wept odorous Gums and Balm, Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rind Hung amiable. . . . Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interpos'd, Or palmy hillock, or the flow'ry lap Of some irriguous Valley spread her store, Flow'rs of all hue, and without... | |
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