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... Insect Miscellanies - Page 227by James Rennie - 1831 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...made 60 Thou- beauties visible; one while they stream' d A bright blue radiance upon flowers which closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day...anon starring the sky Rose like a shower of fire. Our friendly hosts Now led us to the hut, our that night's home, A rude and spacious dwelling : twisted... | |
| Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...made «o Their beauties visible ; one while they stream' d A bright blue radiance upon flowers which closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now motionless and dark eluded search. Self -shrouded ; and anon starring the sky Rose like a shower of fire. Our friendly hosts Now led us... | |
| R. E - 1849 - 430 pages
...More wonders than it veiled : innumerous tribes From the wood- cover swarmed. and darkness made Their beauties visible. One while they streamed A bright...and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded : and anon, staining the sky Shone like a shower of fire." In this account of the luminous properties of insects,... | |
| Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1872 - 492 pages
...tribes From the wood cover swarm'd and darkness mad* Their beauties visible ; one while they stream'd A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their...search, Self-shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky. Rise like a shower of fire. " In England they have but one species of luminous insect, well known under... | |
| Robert Southey - 800 pages
...darkness made Their beauties visible ; one while they stream'd A bright blue radiance upon flowers which closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day...anon starring the sky Rose like a shower of fire. Our friendly hosts Now led us to the hut, our that night's home, A rude and spacious dwelling : twisted... | |
| Electronic journals - 1904 - 678 pages
...JLheir beauties visible : one while they stream'd A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed J.neir gorgeous colours from the eye of day • .Now motionless and dark, eluded; search, bell-shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky. Rose like a shower of fire. But Southey "confounds the... | |
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