 Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft...  The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 163edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Ulrich Weisstein, Jean-Louis Cupers - Art - 2000 - 344 pages
...fragrant the fertil earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Eevning milde, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the Gemms of Heav'n, her starrie train: But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 pages
...When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, 645 Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming-on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon,... | |
 | Abigail Adams, John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 438 pages
...first on this delightfull land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit and flower Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers, and sweet the comeing on of Gratefull Evening mild; then Silent Night with this her solemn Bird, and this fair Moon... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...sun0 When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After...and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild, then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth 645 After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Ev'ning mild, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the Gems of Heav'n, her starry train: But neither breath of Morn when she ascends 650 With charm of earliest Birds,... | |
 | David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...sensuous, lyrical voice is underscored by the sibilants of her poetry as she describes the fragrance of "the fertile earth / After soft showers: and sweet the coming on / Of grateful Ev'ning mild, then silent Night / With this her solemn Bird ..." Yet only with Adam are all these delightful,... | |
 | John Adams - Literary Collections - 2003 - 516 pages
...sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth After...and sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening mild; then silent Night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After...and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild, then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon And these the gems of heaven, her starry... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Ev'ning mild, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the Gems of... | |
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