 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...  The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 163edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herbf tree, fruit and flower( Glittering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit and flower, Glist'ning with due ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon. And these the gems of Heaven, her... | |
 | Pneumanee (fict.name.) - 1814 - 270 pages
...thee is ' sweet.'"—" See, Charles," said Lucy, " I stopped too soon, as if I was not very fond of ' Silent night, with this ' her solemn bird, and this fair moon, ' and ' and these, the gems of heaven, her ' starry train;' and you know I cloat upon them all." — " Dear... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on heib, tree, fruit, and flower., Glist'ning with dew ^ fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night. With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, • And these the gems of heaven,... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1815 - 296 pages
...who," said Lucy, " could ever stop in the middle of such a description? you must have it all: — ' Fragrant the fertile earth after soft showers, and ' sweet the coming on of grateful evening mild.' — Well, Charles," she added, " I will spare you the rest in compliment to your gray morning, which... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 262 pages
...first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glitt'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers...and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...herbs, 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, the silent night With this her solemn hird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train. But neither breath of morn,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this rair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, ' on herb, tree, fruit and flower, Glist'ning with dew ; fragrant the fertile -earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming oa Of frateful evening mild ; then silent night, With tkisher solemn bird, and this fair moon. Anil... | |
 | 1818 - 444 pages
...When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herbs, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After...; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her... | |
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