 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
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 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, still prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was that happy garden-state,... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, 50 Casting the bodie's vest aside, My soul into the houghs does glide : There, like a bird it sits, and sings,...silver wings ; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, - ,..55 Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was 'that happy garden-state, "\ While man there... | |
 | John Symons - Hull (England) - 1872 - 188 pages
...worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. There at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's rest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, 50 Casting the bodie's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : There, like a Vird it sits, and sings, \^ Then whets and claps its silver wingsj. And, tillprepar'd for longer flight,... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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,... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - Ballads, English - 1873 - 228 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 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...it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various wings, light. Such was that happy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...glide: There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Tl"-n 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... | |
 | Maria Hall - 1875 - 488 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...Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light." At last we find Marvel treading... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 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,... | |
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