Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower Glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers... The History of the Anglo-Saxons - Page 463by Sharon Turner - 1807 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...flower, G list"ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on Cf grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this...solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heav'n, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends 650 With charm of earliest birds... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs ; and sweet the coming on 646 Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent Night With this her solemn bird, and this fair Moon, And these the gems of Heav'n, her starry train : But neither breath of Morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1799 - 172 pages
...with cieiv ; fragrant the fertile earth Afcr soft show'rs; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her srarry train : But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on " Of grateful evening mild...moon, " And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : " But neither breath of morn, when she ascends " With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun "... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 pages
...herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on *» Of grateful evening mild...moon, " And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : " But neither breath of morn, when she ascends " With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun "... | |
| Longinus - 1800 - 238 pages
...herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft show'rs : and sweet the coming on « Of grateful evening mild:...solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train. But neither breath of morn, when she ascends, With charms of earliest birds... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...flower, *' Glist'ring with dew : fragrant the fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coining on " Of grateful evening mild : then, silent night...moon, " And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : " But neither breath of morn, when she ascends " With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun "... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pages
...herb, tree, fruit, and flower, " Glist'ring with dew : fragrant (he fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on " Of grateful evening mild...this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, " And these th£ gems of heaven, her starry train : " But neither breath of morn, when she ascends " With charm... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...the fertile earth " After soft show'rs, and sweet the coming on " Of grateful evening mild : tben, silent night " With this her solemn bird, and this...moon, " And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : " But neither breath of morn, when she ascends " With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun "... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful...moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train. But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this... | |
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