 Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from...  The Curse of Kehama - Page 8by Robert Southey - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Tresham Gilbey - 1872 - 474 pages
...canes which, crackling, fall before his way, And tassel grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'erlapping the young trees, On comes the elephant to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid spring.' THE pasturage being nearly exhausted in the immediate neighbour-hood of our camp, and the... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1872 - 134 pages
...a great bough to fan himself with. The lines I have quoted go on to say something about this:— ' Lo! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder palm, with waving motion slow Fanning the languid air, He waves it to... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His...flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with wavey motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His...pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flinys The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with wavey motion... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 618 pages
...canes which crackling fell before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant to slake His...at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower; and now, Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His...flings The grateful ' shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with wavey motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to... | |
 | Beata Francis - 1881 - 280 pages
...brake And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, where silvery feathers play, On comes the Elephant to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane,... | |
 | 1881 - 302 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo 1 from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...tassal grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertoppiug the young trees, On comes the elephant, to ?lake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs ; Lo ! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft, he flinga The grateful shower, and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with waving motion... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His...flings The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with wavy motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to... | |
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