 | Robert Southey - 1811 - 236 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the Wood Nymphs lie Their languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were... | |
 | 1812 - 702 pages
...e'er was mofly bed Whereon the Wood Nymphs lie [lay] Their languid lirabs in fumrner's fultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers Which, like a bud compacted, , Their purple cups contracted, And now in open bloiïbm fpread, Strctch'd like green anthers many a feeking head. ' And arboreis of jointed ftone... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the Wood Nymphs lie Their languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborels of jointed stone were... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the Wood Nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here too were living flowers Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud...compacted, Their purple cups contracted; And now, in open blossom spread, Strech'd, like green anthers, many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were... | |
 | Seashore biology - 1847 - 282 pages
...Sea-anemone. When closed, it is in its quiescent state ; when open, seeking its food. Here, too, are living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now in open blossom spread, Stretch, like green anthers, many a seeking head. SouTHEy. It is worthy of observation... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1854 - 344 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here too were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now, in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud...compacted, Their purple cups contracted ; And now, in open blossom spread, Strech'd, like green anthers, many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 202 pages
...eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud...compacted, Their purple cups contracted ; And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd, like green anthers, many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...o'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie Witli languid limbs in Bummer's sultry hours. Hero, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted,...spread, Stretched, like green anthers, many a seeking head. And arboretn of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread ; Yea,... | |
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With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted ; And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd, like green anthers, many a seeking head. 
