 Twas as if every image that mirrored lay In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting shadow of earth and sky, Lest the happy model should be lost, Had been mimicked in fairy masonry By the elfin builders of the frost.  Poetical works - Page 299by James Russell Lowell - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1884 - 486 pages
...nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystalled the beams of moon and BUD, And made a star of every one. No mortal builder's...rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice; 'Twas as if every image that mirrored lay In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Religious poetry - 1885 - 1148 pages
...through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made...rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice ; 'Twas as if every image that mirrored lay In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting... | |
 | James Johonnot - English language - 1885 - 202 pages
...here He had caught the nodding bullrush-tops, And hung them thickly with diamond-drops, That crystaled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal builder's most rare device LESSON XXXVII. THE ROCKY PASS AT SUNSET. " The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops, And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystaled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one. 1 unleafed = leafless. 2 brook heard it, etc. What is the figure of speech ? s He groined his arches... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...ornamentation. ' relief, raised work. 8 arabesques, fanciful ornamentations used for enriching flat surfaces. No mortal builder's most rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice ; 1 'Twas as if every image that mirrored lay In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, »„ That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made...rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice; 'Twas as if every image that mirrored lay x; In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting... | |
 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...and: here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops,.'«''/. * That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one;; (4) No mortal builder's most rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice ; 'Twas as if every... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrueh tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, Which crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one. Within the hall are song and laughter, The cheeks of Christmas grow red and jolly, And sprouting is... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 pages
...through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star o£ every one. No mortal builder's most rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice; 'Twas as... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1889 - 248 pages
...through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, :oo That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made...rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice ; 'Twas as if every image that mirrowed lay In his depths serene through the summer day, Each fleeting... | |
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