 Before the mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its softened way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around; the wild-fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed;...  William Harrison Ainsworth and His Friends - Page 150by Stewart Marsh Ellis - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread ' ' ' . ' Around : the wild fowl nestled in...to its brink, and stood • With their green faces fixed upon the flood. • • ' • ( •: " >l :!' . *'* ^ "II *«? Its outlet dash'd into a deep... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...deep and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake...downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fixed upon the flood. Its outlet dashed into a deep cascade Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...fed By a river, which its softened way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Aroand : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downward* W its brink, and stood With their green faees fixed ujWh the flood. . Its outlet dashed into... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water long flowing hair , And many a maid from her mother shall tear. • • I love the fair face of the fix il upon the flood. Its outlet dash'd into a steep cascade. Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake...The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood Its outlet dash'd into a deep cascade, Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding, Its shriller echoes—like... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soft way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake...downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fixed upon the flood.' On reaching the Abbey, the first striking object is the ruined screen of the... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...deep, and freshly fed By a river, which ils softened way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake...downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fixed upon the flood. Its outlet dashed into a deep cascade, Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...fed By a river, which its softened way did take In cnrrents throngh the ealmer water spread Aronnd : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liqnid bed: The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd npon the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 348 pages
...deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake...downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces lixM upon the flood."— E.] Sad havoc Time must with my memory make Ere that or thou can fade these... | |
 | Washington Irving - Abbotsford - 1835 - 262 pages
...its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wildfowl nestle in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downward to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood." SUCH is Lord Byron's... | |
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