 | New national reading books - 1880 - 296 pages
...string. . . -.. ' Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion l wound ; Some to the passing wind, at times, with sway...Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted 2 height. Beneath was smooth and fair... | |
 | William Tayler - 1881 - 594 pages
...depending shoot, Some on the lower boughs, which crossed their way, Fixing their bearded fibres round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound, Some to the passing wind, at tunes, with sway Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmov'd, were hung Like stone drops... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 pages
...towards the ground. Some on the lower boughs, which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound...Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height. Beneath was smooth and fair to... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1884 - 586 pages
...towards the ground. Some on the lower boughs which crossed their way, Fixing their bearded fibres round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound...Of gentle motion swung ; Others, of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height : Beneath was smooth and fair... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1884 - 212 pages
...towards the ground. Some on the lower boughs, which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound...Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height. Beneath was smooth and fair to... | |
 | Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1887 - 616 pages
...towards the ground Some on the lower boughs which crossed their way Fixing their bearded fibres round and round With many a ring and wild contortion wound...passing wind, at times, with sway Of gentle motion swung ; Beneath was smooth and fair to sight, Nor weeds nor briers deformed the natural floor, And through... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1888 - 360 pages
...towards the ground. Some on the lower boughs which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound...Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height ; Beneath was smooth and fair... | |
 | Alan Walters - 1892 - 340 pages
...towards the ground. Some on the lower boughs which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound;...Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height. Growing somewhat in the same fashion are the evergreen Mangroves, a root-throwing clan, of which the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 264 pages
...towards the ground. Some on the lower boughs which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound...Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height ; Beneath was smooth and fair... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - 1086 pages
...towards the ground, Some on the lower boughs which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound...Of gentle motion swung ; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height." Sout/iei/, Curse of Kdiama,... | |
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Some on the lower boughs which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres, round and round, With many a ring and wild contortion wound; Some to the passing wind at times, with sway Of gentle motion swung; Others of younger growth, unmoved, were hung... 
