 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
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...fragrant (he fertile earth After soft showers ; uiid 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 hearrn, her starry train. CO\VLEY. Mark that swift arrow ! how it cuts the air ! How it outruns the... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glittering 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, And these the gems of Heaven, her... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...fragrant the fertile earth 645 After soft show'rs; and sweet the coming en Of grateful evening 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... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - Religious education - 1834 - 42 pages
...spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit and flower, Glistening with dew; fragrant the fertil 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, And these the gems of heaven her... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1836 - 626 pages
...first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistening 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, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | Theocritus - English poetry - 1836 - 450 pages
...delightful land he spreads NOTES. 355 His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring 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, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...first on this delightful laud 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 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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertil 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, And these the gems of Heaven, her... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 422 pages
...first on this delightful earth he spreads His orient beams on herbs true, fruit and flower, Glistening 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. And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 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... | |
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