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
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pages
...tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant to slake 160 His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from...he 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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake 160 His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from...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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake 160 Hig thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs Lo ! from 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... | |
| Frederick Walter Champion - 1928 - 408 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...at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturn 'd aloft he flings The grateful shower." ROBERT SOUTHEY. A THOUGH wild elephants are still common... | |
| Robert Southey - 720 pages
...brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo ! from...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... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 2003 - 416 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...flings The grateful shower : and now Plucking the broad-leaf 'd hough Of yonder plane, with waving motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He waves it... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1854 - 768 pages
...silvery feathers play, O'crtopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst anon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturn'd...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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