 The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its...  Winter pictures by poet and artist - Page 19by Winter pictures - 1882Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 276 pages
...breeze, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, Still streaming as they move with coloured light. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of some virgin mine, Deep in the womb... | |
 | 1821 - 534 pages
...breeze, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, Still streaming as they move with coloured light. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot The spacious cavern of some virgin mine, Deep in the womb... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...hold."— p. 121, 122. Very good too is this picture of an icebound forest. " Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray, Nodding...boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide Oh ! spot The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the The spacious cavern of the virgin mine, Deep m... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 598 pages
...hold." — p. 121, 122. Very good too is this picture of an ice-bound forest. " Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray,...with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the pareut stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The grassy floor. Oh !... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1832 - 426 pages
...srfly, That «eemed a living tilttssont of tni air. Or more redolent of life than this of a waterfall : Each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of Heaven, Is studded with iu trembling water drops, Thatetream with rainbow radience ae they move. But we are warned to bringour... | |
 | Charles Williams - Botany - 1833 - 284 pages
...thy steps ; And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray,...the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The grassy floor.' And then, having compared it to a spacious cavern, ' where the gems... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal, each light spray, Nodding...the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The grassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot, The spacious cavern of the virgin mine,... | |
 | Charles Williams - Botany - 1833 - 300 pages
...thy steps ; And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray, Nodding...studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow-radiance as they move. But ronnd the parent stem the long low boughs Bend in a glittering ring,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray,.... Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbours hide The glassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot, The spacious cavern of some virgin mine, Deep in the womb... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy Trunks are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray,...heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops That glimmer with an amethystine light ; Bat round the parent-stem the long, low boughs Bend, in a glittering... | |
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