 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 92by Charles Lamb - 1835 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 448 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,...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 448 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 628 pages
...opportunity outside. In his cell in the White Tower his soul found and enjoyed a real freedom. ' Then, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And till prepared fur longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.' It is a significant tradition attached to... | |
 | Norman O. Brown - Philosophy - 2023 - 216 pages
...And all this is folly to the world. A spiritualization of nature; an invisible spirit in the tree— Casting the body's vest aside My soul into the boughs does glide. The transfiguration is a transmigration. t* As Karl Marx said, the humanization of nature is the naturalization... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...worlds and other seas. Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade, (1. 41-48) 19 ble inn. 'Tis here with boundless pow'r I reign; And...it. at an inn. (1. 1—8) 2 Whoe'er has travelled combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flights. Waves in its plumes the various light.... | |
 | Patricia Ondek Laurence - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 260 pages
...to mind: Here at the Fountains sliding foot, Or at some Fruit-trees mossy root, Casting the Bodies Vest aside, My Soul into the boughs does glide: There like a Bird it sits, and sings, Then whets, and combs its silver Wings. Religious exaltation can transform into the psychological flight of the mind... | |
 | Marcia B. Siegel - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 356 pages
...gazing into woodland pools. Parrish, in a verse that accompanied an illustration of Pan, rhapsodized; "casting the body's vest aside / my soul into the boughs does glide." The art dancers of the early twentieth century hardly wanted to dematerialize themselves, but they... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 364 pages
...you know, ecstasy means "a putting aside," and this is just what the soul does: Casting the Bodie's Vest aside, My Soul into the boughs does glide: There like a Bird, it sits, and sings, Then whets, and combs its silver Wings; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, Waves in its Plumes the various Light.... | |
 | Virginia Graham - Poetry - 1996 - 260 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, 50 Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 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...There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.... | |
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