 Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night display More wonders than it veiled : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible ; one while, they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that...  A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica - Page 105by Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1851 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - 1806 - 276 pages
...wisest leech that ever in our world Culled herbs of hidden virtue, was to these Even as an infant. Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did...they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now, motionless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 362 pages
...wisest leech that ever in our world Culled herbs of hidden virtue, was to these Even as an infant. Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night display Mere wonders than it veiled : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarmed, and darkness made Their... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 318 pages
...wisest leech that ever in our world Cull'd herbs of hidden virtue, was to these Even as an infant. Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night display More wonders than it veil'd : innumerous tribes From the wood.cover swarm'd, and darkness made Their beauties visible ;... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...features of his lovely guide." The same insect is again alluded to in the following beautiful passage : " Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did...swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible; onewhile they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...following beautiful passage : " Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night diswondei More wonders than it veiled ; innumerous tribes From...they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...following beautiful passage : " Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night disMore wonders than it veiled ; innumerous tribes From the...made Their beauties visible; one while they streamed Л bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now motionless... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1823 - 556 pages
...above referred to, who has thus related its first effect upon the British visitors of the new world : * Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night display More wonders than it veil'd : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarm* il, and darkness made Thei# beauties visible... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 400 pages
...language of our poet, who has related its first effect upon the British visitors of the New world. " Sorrowing we beheld The night come on; but soon did...wonders than it veiled; innumerous tribes From the wood cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible : one while they streamed • A bright... | |
 | Education - 1826 - 408 pages
...language of our poet, who has related its first effect upon the British visitors of the New world. " Sorrowing we beheld The night come on; but soon did night display • More wonders than it veiled; in numerous tribes From the wood cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible: one while... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...night come on . but soou did night display More wonders than it relied : innumerous tribes From tbe wood-cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties...one while they streamed A bright blue radiance upon (lowers whicb closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now motionless and dark eluded search,... | |
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