 Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft...  Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 243by Laconics, John Timbs - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 302 pages
...change, all please alikeSweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His oriunt beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r Gftst'rinir with dew : fragrant the fertile earth ,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826
...change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land...Glist'ring with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1826
...all please alike. • Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit and flower, Glistering with dew." Without even supposing that this beautiful combination of rural imagery was connected... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826
...change; all please alike: Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, for just, conceived, doubtless, that, in his «State of Innocence,» he might exert his skill successfully,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826
...change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, "With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun "When first on this delightful land...His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, v Glist'ning with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs ; and sweet the coming on Of... | |
 | Robert Bridges
...Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun when fast on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour, distring with dew; fragrant the fertil earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on of... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 187 pages
...change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land...spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour, Glistring with dew; fragrant the fertil earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 187 pages
...use of "orient" occurs in Eve's beautiful love lyric which the narrator reports to us. She praises the sun "When first on this delightful Land he spreads/ His orient Beams" (IV, 643-644). To make us feel the full force of the word, with its multiple meanings, Milton surrounds... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 356 pages
...of the Ovidian style: Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land...spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour, Glistring with dew; fragrant the fertil earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 305 pages
...change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of mom, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land...spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on... | |
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