 | Andrew Wilson - 1877 - 226 pages
...day or age, but which hold good for all time. CONCERNING SEA-ANEMONES. And here were coral-bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too,... | |
 | 1879 - 624 pages
...of my half -inch cedar boat, and about 190 fathoms of water between me And here were coral-bowers, And grots of Madrepores, And banks of sponge as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie, With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours. Here... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 594 pages
...foliage of earth :* — " It was a garden still beyond all price, Even yet it was a place of Paradise And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. * Southey,... | |
 | William Albert Andrews - 1880 - 200 pages
...still beyond all price — Even yet it was a place of Paradise. ****** And here were coral-bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed G Whereon the wood-nymphs lie, With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours. Here... | |
 | William A. Andrews - 1880 - 204 pages
...still beyond all price — Even yet it was a place of Paradise. ****** And here were coral-bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed G Whereon the wood-nymphs lie, With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours. Here... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1881 - 374 pages
...many poets, though even such beauties as Southey paints in ' Thalaba,' must pall when enjoyed alone: ' And here were coral bowers And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to oyo 5—2 As e'er was mossy bed, Wherein the wood-nymphs lie, With languid limbs in summer's sultry... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1882 - 304 pages
...etone ! O have reverted to a page, in which Southey's lilies had a double mark affixed to them : — " And here were coral bowers And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye, As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood nymphs lie, With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 320 pages
...Just listen to him " ' It was a garden still beyond all price, Even yet it was a place of paradise ; And here were coral bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs He With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too,... | |
 | Baroness Annie Allnutt Brassey, Annie Brassey - 1885 - 590 pages
...not only equalled but far surpassed my most sanguine anticipations. And here were coral bowers, Anil grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As mossy bed whereon the wood-nymphs lie, With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1895 - 264 pages
...Baly, in his might, Made for his chosen place of solace and delight. It was a Garden still beyond all price, Even yet it was a place of Paradise ; For where...madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the Wood Nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here too... | |
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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. 
