 The Cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together...  The Picture of Scotland - Page 3881828Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...of green Savannahs spake, And many an endless endless lake With all its fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds : And then he said " How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, Still wandering... | |
 | John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 386 pages
...obtained from Ben Lomond; it is less extensive, indeed, but presents a more beautiful view southward, including " All the fairy crowds Of islands, which...quietly, as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds." * Gaelic dubh, black. t Gaelic, cailleach, ah old woman, a nun. These islands are in number about thirty,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...green Savannahs spake, And many an endless endless lake, With all its fairy crowds, Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds : And then he said, " how sweet it were " A fisher or a hunter there, " A gardener in the shade, "... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...green Savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds - Of islands, that together lie, As quietly as spots of sky, Among the evening clouds.' No wonder, then, that the love of nature and of nature's works .should, in after years, have haunted... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. And then he said " How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, Still wandering... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. And then he said " How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, '* Still... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. " And then he said, ' How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, Still... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. " And then he said, • How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, Still... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. And then he said " How sweet it were A fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, Still wandering... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...description of these islands, which look as if sown over the glassy surface by the sportive hand of Nature, " All the fairy crowds Of islands which together lie, As quietly as spots to sky, Among the evening clouds," which, wMi the towering height of the mountains on its banks, compose... | |
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