 Sunbeams, upon distant hills Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly. The Zephyrs fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they...  The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem - Page 180by William Wordsworth - 1814 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 pages
...sometimes intermixed with stirring horns In the low vale, or on steep mountain side ; Of the live doer, or goat's depending beard,— These were the lurking...wild brood Of gamesome deities; or Pan himself, The simpl* shepherd's awe-aspiring God. —WoRDSWdBTH. WORDSWORTH. (AD 1770—1850.) AT length, aa the... | |
 | 1871 - 970 pages
...they passed, their wings, Lacking not, for love, fair objecta whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From deep or shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale or on steep mountain side ; And, lometimes, intermixed... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1871 - 526 pages
...as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god !" Beyond these embodied and personified powers of nature each tribe had local deities, which cannot... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - 1872 - 338 pages
...as they passed, their wings, Lacked not for love fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god. This figurative or poetical element in the classical mythology would, doubtless, be understood by the... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects, whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves...Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god !" As this apt strain proceeded, I could mark Its kmdly influence, o er the yielding brow Of our companion,... | |
 | 1872 - 106 pages
...as_ they passed their wings, Looked not for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque. Stripped of their leaves...covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain-side; And sometimes intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...not for love fair objects, whom they woo'd With gentle whisper. Wither'd boughs grotesque, Stripp'd of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth...covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain-side — And sometimes, intermix'd with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...not, for love, fair objects, whom they woo'd With gentle whisper. Wither'd boughs grotesque, Stripp'd of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth...covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain-side — And sometimes, intermix'd with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goats' depending... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...the upper air, when winds are driving clouds across the face of the sky. From depth of shaggy coyert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side ; And, sometimes, intermix'd with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard, — These were the lurking... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...whisper. Wither'd boughs grotesque, Stripp'd of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of sharpy Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was died ; Ful intermix'd with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard — These were the lurking... | |
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