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 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : [ look it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you seek, It were... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...give me back the wild freshness of morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth evening's best light. 1 I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures...of the rainbow live, And play i'th plighted clouds. 2 A wilderness of sweets ; for nature here Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will Her virgin... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill. Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; colors of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Earth, Graceful with hills and dales, and leafy woods,...is thy force confin'd : But to the bowel'd cavern colors of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past,... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 450 pages
...that the Church had been purified from idolatry ; and Frederic and Elizabeth believed it to be a fairy vision, " Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live And dwell in the pighted clouds." Meantime, in spite of the gathering storm, Elizabeth and her husband... | |
 | 1846 - 708 pages
...after her brothers. Coraus^ with many rustic metaphors, tells her where he saw them, and " Took them for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element,...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. — I was awe struck ;" and offers finally to guide the lady to the place.... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 696 pages
...says, — The grassy clods now calved ; or the meaning of "plighted" in the lines from Cornus : — Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play ¡' the plighted clouds. Some rustics of our acquaintance would answer as Mr. Brockett's old woman... | |
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