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" 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 boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver... "
Essays of Elia - Page 92
by Charles Lamb - 1835 - 412 pages
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The Chapel of St. John; Or, a Life of Faith in the Nineteenth Century

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1861 - 402 pages
...Meanwhile, the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here, at the fountain's...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...
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Favourite English Poems: Chaucer to Pope, 1350-1700

English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds and other seas ; . Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's...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,...
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Early English poems, Chaucer to Pope

English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's...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...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...below, Only among the plants will grow. Society is all but rude In this delicious solitude. For here the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness...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 boughs does glide ; There,...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 238 pages
...below, Only among the plants will grow. Society is all but rude In this delicious solitude. For here the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness...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 boughs does glide ; There,...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor)., Volume 10

1874 - 968 pages
...fluttering in 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...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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Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 498 pages
...as I pass, 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 into the boughs does glide. Theie like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for...
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Sunday readings (verses).

Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made * Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's...claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer night, Waves in its plumes the various light. After a place so pure and sweet, What other help could...
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Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other 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 mom; root, OsJtinfr the body's Test aside, My soul into the boughs docs glide ; There, like a bird,...
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The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...transcending these. Far other worlds and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a. green thought iu a green, shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree'a mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul iuto the boughs does glido ; , . There,...
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