 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...words: — "A pleasing land of drowsy head'it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky; There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt - 1868 - 394 pages
...saint, of ladies dancing in their bowers, or of knights justling in their tournaments, rather than of " Gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer sky," of giants and wizards, of fairies and of ghosts. To this, indeed, there are exceptions among his poems,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Line 1 1 8. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1869 - 568 pages
...described : — " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half -shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer's day." They have performed so many journeys, and made so many discoveries, and won so many... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - England - 1872 - 246 pages
...CHAPTER I. A pleasing land of drowsyhead it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round the summer sky ; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...flow. VI. .A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was ; Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883 - 452 pages
...(3reenwoo& TTree. "A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky." I REMEMBER in my boyhood that one of the only secular books not interdicted in our family on Sundays—... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...to flow. VI A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky : There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Line 1 18. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the... | |
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A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky... 
