Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag,... To-day: The Popular Illustrated Magazine - Page 1351873Full view - About this book
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...tropics stretching over all, where — ' Droops the heavy blossomed bower : hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea.' Within the upper portions of this area the coral fauna may be witnessed in all the perfection of its... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1852 - 564 pages
...and palms in cluster, knots of paradise. Droops the heavy blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea. TERNTSOK. tlued their ferocious enemies the Mahrattas, the most daring warriors of India. This powerful... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1853 - 346 pages
...brain, and he will deem those idle fancies that once possessed him, which made the poet's home only where " Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the...isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway,... | |
| 1854 - 594 pages
...Slides the binl o'er lustrous wood land, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy hlossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Take Wordsworth, and in his deep-thoughted lines, no labored juggling with technicality is discoverable... | |
| 1857 - 716 pages
...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Love and balls, the opera and angling, boating and swimming, and the piquant delights of a highly original... | |
| 1857 - 700 pages
...woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Love and balle, the opera and angling, boating and swimming, and the piquant delights of a highly original... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1858 - 402 pages
...Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom' d bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark -purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway,... | |
| Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1860 - 442 pages
...floats an European flag ; Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, droops the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." THE East — that East which to the occidental imagination lies Under the opening eye-lids of the morn,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 896 pages
...floats a European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossomed bower, hangs the heavy-fruited...isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea. The Red Indian, belted with the it is but justice to say we have scalps of his foes, compromises for... | |
| Fenton Aylmer - 1860 - 338 pages
...hey for the Sandwich Isles ! CHAPTER XIV. " Droops the heavy blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy fruited tree, Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." THE breeze kept steady for the next six days, and helped us along handsomely ; then a calm came, and... | |
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