| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...lonely sound of winds, that moan around, Accordant to the melancholy waves. AN EASTERN EVENING. EVEEINO comes on : arising from the stream, Homeward the tall...plumage glows with deeper light. The watchman, at the wish'd approach of night, Gladly forsakes the field, where he all day, To scare the winged plunderers... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...lonely sound of winds, that moan around, Accordant to the melancholy waves. AN EASTERN EVENING. EVEMXO comes on : arising from the stream, Homeward the tall...plumage glows with deeper light. The watchman, at the wish'd approach of night, Gladly forsakes the field, where he all day, To scare the winged plunderers... | |
| 1881 - 704 pages
...phœnicopterus ingene." Southey in his Cune of Kehama has the following reference to this bird : — " Evening comes on : arising from the stream, Homeward the tall flamingo wings Ms flight ; And when he sails athwart the setting beam, llis scarlet plumage glows with deeper light."... | |
| 1852 - 388 pages
...this purpose." Mr. Southey opens the fifth part of his Curse of Kehama with a similar allusion : " Evening comes on :—arising from the stream, Homeward the tall flamingo wings his flight j And when he sails athwart the setting beam, His scarlet plumage glows with deeper light. The WATCHMAN,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 pages
...stricken mirth, Ye sweep along the hills — Then how the wakening landscape thnlls! AN EASTERN EVENING. EVENING comes on : arising from the stream, Homeward...plunderers from their prey, With shout and sling, from yonder clay-built height, Hath borne the sultry ray. Hark ! at the Golden Palaces, The Uramin... | |
| Robert Southey - 1860 - 338 pages
...With many a dome and pinnacle and spire. The summits of the Golden Palaces Blazed in the dark-blue sky, aloft, like fire. " Father, away! " she cried,...With shout and sling, on yonder clay-built height, Hark ! at the Golden Palaces The Bramin strikes the hour: For leagues and leagues around, the brazen... | |
| George Rapall Noyes - 1867 - 380 pages
...Mr. Southey opens the fifth part of his Curse of Kehama with a similar allusion, quoted by Dr. Good : Evening comes on : arising from the stream, Homeward...yonder clay-built height, Hath borne the sultry ray. 19. The rich man lieth down: ie dies. — and is not buried: lit. not gathered: ie as the slain are... | |
| George Rapall Noyes - 1868 - 398 pages
...Mr. Southey opens the fifth part of his Curse of Kehama with a similar allusion, quoted by Dr. Good : Evening comes on : arising from the stream, Homeward...forsakes the field, where he, all day, To scare the vrin«efl plunderers from their prey, With shout and sling, on yonder clay-built height, Hath borne... | |
| Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pages
...finish, there is less power, less dash and splendour in it than in the following lines of Southey : — Evening comes on : arising from the stream Homeward...approach of night, Gladly forsakes the field, where, all the day, To scare the winged plunderers from their prey, With shout and sling on yonder clay-built... | |
| J. Duguid - 1874 - 320 pages
...for evening parties, and there are vultures, hawks, parrots, and crows innumerable. " Evening conies on : arising from the stream, Homeward the tall flamingo...plumage glows with deeper light. The watchman, at the wish'd approach of night, Gladly forsakes the field, where he all day, To scare the winged plunderers... | |
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