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" Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside. My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight,... "
The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author - Page 126
by Andrew Marvell - 1857 - 335 pages
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Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state, While man there walk'd without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, What...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...the boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sib and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gardener drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new ! Wbere, from above, the milder...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...: There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings; And, till prepar'd iversal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous...then ! laspeakable, who sit'st above these Heavens walk d without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, What other help could yet be meet ! But 'twas...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets 'and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Can the reader content himself with this delightful picture of the rich products of an English garden,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Books - 1825 - 392 pages
...There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state, While man there walk'd without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, What...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 11

Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state, While man there walk'd without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet, What...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Books - 1825 - 390 pages
...: There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. Such was the happy garden state, . While man there walk'd without a mate : After a place so pure and sweet,...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light, How well the skilful gardener drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new! Where, from above, the milder...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...the boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and smgs, Then wets and claps its silver wmgs ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gardener drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new ! . Where, from above, the...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light. How well the skilful gardener drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new ! Where, from above, the milder...
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