 Twas a fair scene — a land more bright Never did mortal eye behold ! Who could have thought, that saw this night Those valleys and their fruits of gold Basking in heaven's serenest light ; — Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their...  Ainsworth's Magazine - Page 400edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...heav'n's serenest light j — Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leat'-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 416 pages
...the pelicans upon Lake Moeris. Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; 6 — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more... | |
 | Asia - 1817 - 696 pages
...heaven's serenest light ; — Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leaf-crown'd heads, like youthful maids when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ;— Those virgin lillies »11 the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 414 pages
...the pelicans upon Lake Moeris. Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds;6 — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise... | |
 | History - 1818 - 798 pages
...heav'n's serenest light j— Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake. That they may rise more... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...pelicans upon Lake Mceris. Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leaf-crown 'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; — * Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more... | |
 | 874 pages
...has a singularly graceful appearance. " Those groups of lovely date-trees bending, Languidly their leaf-crowned heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending, Warns them to their silken beds." Southey, already quoted, thus describes the uses of the palm-tree in Arab domestic life : " Under the... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...serencst light ; — Those groups of lovely date- trees bending Languidly their leaf-crowned beads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending, Warns them to their silken beds ; Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1829 - 446 pages
...their formation and their arrangement. " Those groups of lovely date-trees bending Languidly their leaf-crowned heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds *." The main stems of the leaves are from eight to twelve feet long, firm, shining, and tapering; and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...heaven's serenesi light; — Those groups of lovely date-trees bending languidly their leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds;—6 1 « The mountain» of the MOOD, or the Monte* Lunte of aniiqntiy, •t the foot of which... | |
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