 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: There like a bird it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And till prepared for longer flight,...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 851836Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...Far other worlds and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs...sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...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 the body's vest asi<le, My soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and smgs, Then whets and claps... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy Garden-state While man there walk'd without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, What... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...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...sings. Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state,... | |
 | W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...To a green 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...sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. 3Deto=JDrops. SEE how the orient... | |
 | W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 238 pages
...To a green 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...sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. SEE how the orient dew, Shed from... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 120 pages
...glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state, While man there walked without a mate: After a place so pure and sweet, What... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...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...sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. 3* Such was the happy garden state.... | |
 | 1874 - 968 pages
...the branches above suggested another theme for his muse, and he changed his rhyme: — " Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy...like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps ita silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light." At... | |
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