 And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrailed curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalks on high.  Retrospective Review - Page 164edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | 1788 - 510 pages
...to espy, 20 All lovely daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks all loose umide, As each had been a bride ; And each one had a little...wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrailed curiously, 15 In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously... | |
 | 1792 - 774 pages
...long ; Sweet Thames '. run foftly till I end my long. With goodly grcenifh locks all bofe untiii-, As each had been a bride ; And each one had a little wicker bafke-, Made of fine twin», entrailed curioufly. In which they gathcr'd flower» to fill that £-'... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 pages
...each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalkes on hye. Of every sort, which in that meadow grew. They gathered some ; the violet, pallid blew,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...daughters of the Flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 450 pages
...daughters of the Flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, 25 In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...daughters of the flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 442 pages
...daughters of the Flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled2 curiously, 25 In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket,3 And with fine fingers... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...daughters of the Flood thereby, With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde, As each had bene a brycle ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made, of fine twigs, cntrayled curiously, M In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Baker - 1854 - 440 pages
...clothes ; often called a " clothes flasket." The word occurs in Florio, " Cista. A basket or a, flasket." And each one had a little wicker basket Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously In which they gathered flowers to fill their flaskets. SPENSER'S Prothalaraia.... | |
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