Or by the bowery clefts, and leafy shelves, Guess where the jaunty streams refresh themselves. I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had played upon my heels: I was light-hearted, And many pleasures to my vision... The Eclectic Review - Page 227edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
| Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...said in praise both of its beauty and sweetness in the following couplet ! " A bush of May-flowers with the bees about them ; Ah, sure no tasteful nook would be without them !" KEATS. Chaucer frequently speaks of the Hawthorn : " There sawe I growing eke the freshe hauthorne... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...themselves I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the faniung wings of Mercury Had play'd upon my heels : I was light-hearted. And many pleasures to my vision started ; So I straightway began lo pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, inilky, soft and rosy. A bush of May-flowers with the beet «boat... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...themselves I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had play'd upon my heels : I was light-hearted. And many pleasures to my vision started ; So I stmightway began to pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. A bush of May-flowers with... | |
| John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...themselves. I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had play'd upon my heels : I was light-hearted, And many pleasures...vision started ; So I straightway began to pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. A*bush of May-flowers with the bees about them ; Ah,... | |
| 1909 - 844 pages
...that slanted o'er the green. I gazed awhile, and felt as light and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had played upon my heels; I was light-hearted, And many pleasures to my vision started. So did he feel who pulled the boughs aside, That we might look into a forest wide. To catch a glimpse... | |
| John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...themselves. I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had play'd upon my heels : I was light-hearted, And many pleasures...vision started ; So I straightway began to pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. A bush of May-flowers with the bees about them ; Ah,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1847 - 556 pages
...1 gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the limning wings of Mercury Had play'du|<on my heels: I was light-hearted. And many pleasures to my vision started ; So 1 straightway beiran to pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft, and rosy. A bush of May-flowers... | |
| Miss Colman (Pamela Atkins) - American poetry - 1850 - 146 pages
...light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had played upon my heels : I was light hearted, And many pleasures to my Vision started ; So I straightway began to pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. A bush of May-flowers with the bees about them ; Ah,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1853 - 548 pages
...themselves I gazed awhile, and felt as light, and free As though the fanning wings of Mercury Had play'd upon my heels : I was light-hearted. And many pleasures to my vision started ; So f straightway began to pluck a posy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. A bush of May-flowers... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...proportions by the singling out of fragments. " The poetry of earth," he tells us, " is never dead." " I was lighthearted, And many pleasures to my vision started ; So I straightway begun to pluck a poesy Of luxuries bright, milky, soft, and rosy, A bush of Mayflowers with the bees... | |
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