... shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops,... The Idle Man - Page 571821Full view - About this book
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...pure crystal ; branch and twig Shine in the lucid covering ; each light rod, / Nodding and twinkling in the stirring breeze, Is studded with its trembling...light. But round the parent stem the long, low boughs I!. 'u<l in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor. O ! you might deem the spot The spacious... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 604 pages
...heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep in the womb... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide Oh ! spot The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep m... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 598 pages
...with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the pareut stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep in the womb... | |
| Charles Williams - Botany - 1833 - 300 pages
...Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow-radiance as they move. But ronnd the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The grassy floor." And then, having compared it to a spacious cavern, "where the gems grow," and to "the... | |
| Charles Williams - Botany - 1833 - 284 pages
...heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The grassy floor.' And then, having compared it to a spacious cavern, ' where the gems... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot, The spacious cavern of the virgin mine,... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...pure crystal j branch and twig Shine in the lucid covering : each light rod, Nodding and twinkling in the stirring breeze, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, Still streaming, as they move, with colored light. But round the parent stem the long, low boughs Rend in a glittering ring, and arbors... | |
| Fashion - 740 pages
...studded with its trembling water-drops That glimmer with an amethystine light ; Bat round the parent-stem the long, low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor." There are many more lines equally good, but we have not space for them. This is a description of winter... | |
| United States - 1839 - 546 pages
...hoaven, Is studded with its trembling water drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long, low boughs, Bend in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The glassy flower. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of some virgin mine,... | |
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