 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, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted,...  The Curse of Kehama - Page 42by Robert Southey - 1812Full view - About this book
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...That my youth suffered." ZOOLOGY.— No. VII. ZOOPHYTES— continued. OHDER IV. — ASCIDIOIDA. *' As soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed, Whereon the wood nymph lies." SOCTHET. IF we turn to the proceedings of the police courts, we occasionally are edified... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1853 - 770 pages
...madrepores, And bank» of sponge, as soft and fair In eye Лз ere was mossy lied Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which like a bud compact«). Their purple cups contracted ; And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1854 - 344 pages
...wildest of his romances : — " 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 were living flowers, Which, like... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 196 pages
...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,...purple cups contracted; And now in open blossom spread, Stretched, like green anthers, many a seeking head. And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...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. Here, too, were living flowers, Which,... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...o'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie Witli languid limbs in Bummer's sultry hours. Hero, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted; And now in open blossoms spread, Stretched, like green anthers, many a seeking head. And arboretn of jointed stone... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1856 - 190 pages
...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 tlie wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which,... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1858 - 268 pages
...of matchless splendour. " 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-nymph lie, With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours." Hosts of these tiny, social, family labourers... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 216 pages
...of these rock-pools :— " 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, were living flowers, Which,... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pages
...these rock-pools : — " 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, were living flowers, Which,... | |
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