 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 85by William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Marvell, Henry Rogers - Poetry - 1857 - 335 pages
...worlds, and other sens, Annihilating all dial's made , To a green thought in a green shade. Here nt the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy...it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wing*, And, till prepared for longer flight, , Waves in its plumes the various light Such was that... | |
 | CHARLES LAMB. - 1857
...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...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, Henry Rogers - 1857 - 335 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 that happy garden-state, While man there walked without a mate: After a place so pure and sweet, What... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860
...worlds and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. 6 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. 7 Such was the happy garden state,... | |
 | David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1905
...bondage break, Do you, O brambles, chain me too, And, courteous briars, nail me through. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy...does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings. It is a dictum of Mr. Bin-ell's that the first business of an author is to arrest and then to retain... | |
 | English confessors - 1860
...Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. " Here at this fountain's sliding foot, Or at the fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul...boughs does glide. There like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the... | |
 | Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - Mothers and daughters - 1860
...themselves do reach. Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flower?, I fall on grass.' 'Here, at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at. some fruit-tree's...body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: VOL. i. 36 There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And. till... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 332 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. Two paradises are in one, To live... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1861
...into its happiness, 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, Her soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its... | |
 | Poetry - 1863 - 308 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,... | |
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