| James Thomson - 1854 - 404 pages
...heard, to flow. VI. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was ; Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky. There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1854 - 312 pages
...heard, to flow. VI. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer-sky: There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| 1855 - 388 pages
...charms of his fancy: " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer sky." And so too, one of the youngest of our female poets echoes the strain,... | |
| Andrew Wynter - English literature - 1855 - 442 pages
...it as the realization of his delicious Land of ahead:— " Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head 1 it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...scarcely heard, to flo 1 A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head 1 it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
| sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1861 - 430 pages
...XII. Summer Days. " A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky ; There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness... | |
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