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" The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. "How pleasant... "
The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 202
by William Wordsworth - 1820 - 328 pages
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Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland During the Years ..., Volume 1

John Stoddart - 1801 - 388 pages
...indeed, but presents a more beautiful view southward, including " All the fairy crowds Of islands, which together lie, As quietly, as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds." * Gaelic dubh^ black. t Gaelic, cailleach, an old woman, a nun. These islands are in number about thirty,...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...of the Magnolia,* spread High as a cloud, high over-head! The Cypress and her spire, Of flowers § that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. * Magnolia grandiflora. The Youth of green Savannahs spake, And many an endless endless lake, With...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pages
...flowers, that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. And he of green Savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless...quietly as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds.' No wonder, then, that the love of nature and of nature's works .should, in after years, have haunted...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 792 pages
...of the .Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head! The Cypress and her spire, — Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the lulls on fire. •' The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 4

1819 - 782 pages
...of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head ! The Cypress and her spire, —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To let the hills on fire. " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

1821 - 410 pages
...still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :"— " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. * * * ' What days and what sweet years ! Ah me ! Our life were life indeed, with thee So pass'd in...
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The Etonian

1820 - 696 pages
...still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. * * * ' What days and what sweet years ! Ah me ! Oar life were life indeed, with thce So pass'd in...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

1824 - 446 pages
...still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. * * » ' ' What days and what sweet years ! Ah me ! Our life were life indeed, with thee So pass'd...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 pages
...still, and bright With something of an angel light." I produce then my third proof from " Ruth :" — " The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. * * * * What days and what sweet years ! Ah me \ Our life were life indeed, witk thee So pass'd in...
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Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the ...

Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...fading, faded flowers : They stand the wonder of the bowers From morn to evening dews. Of flowers, that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire." Vol. ip 151. Tighe, in his poem entitled the Rose, exalting the beauty of that floral sovereign^ says...
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