 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 392 pages
...leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds J ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake ; — * " The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves." — Smnini. f Savary mentions the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...the largest, Babylon has in all subsequent ages enjoyed the greatest celebrity. BALBEC. Those ruined shrines and towers, that seem The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loveliness Naught but the lapwing's cry is heard ; Naught seen but (when the shadows, flitting Fast... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...brightness of a fine day to rise a few inches above the surface, and unfold their beautiful petals. ' Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright When their beloved Sun's awake. The root of the water-lily is tuberous, sending down a number of long stout fibres. The leaves are... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pages
...whose head languidly reclines, like that of a handsome woman overcome with sleep." — Лаfarit c Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...beloved Sun's awake ; — Those ruin'd shrines and tow'rs that seem The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loneliness Nought but the lapwing's... | |
 | Isabella Caulton - English poetry - 1844 - 214 pages
...its petals, and after closing them, it either reclines on, or sinks below the surface of the water. " Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh, more bright, When their beloved sun's awake." MOORE. In Egypt this flower was dedicated to the moon,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...;:l! Intitulai'? rei'lnfi, like tjlUt Of >un uvcrcutne н-ittí »It-tp. " — IJefird el liadatl. ether, Pve seen around me fall, w«*.T^ Breather; I fee) fair}' loneliness Naught but the lapwing's cry is heard, Naught seen but (when the shadows, flitting... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Flowers in literature - 1847 - 288 pages
...their ancient Saxon names, where the true English Water-lilies still grow. The bard of Erin says, — " Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties...may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun 'a awake." The "Bonny Broom" is familiar to every lover of the country, and cannot be mistaken... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1850 - 204 pages
...FTM. Garendon. WFP. Sheepy Magna : Osbaston. NFS. — — Nuphar lutea. yellow water-lily. common. "Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their...may rise more fresh and bright When their beloved sun 's awake."— Moo RE. These lines allude to the habit of Nymphaea closing its flowers and withdrawing... | |
 | Mary Kirby - Botany - 1850 - 208 pages
...Garendon. WFP. Sheepy Mayna : Osbaston. NFS. — — Nuphar lutea. yellow water-lily, common. • " Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...may rise more fresh and bright When their beloved sun 's awake." — MOOKE. These lines allude to the habit of Nympheea closing its flowers and withdrawing... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...deseending Warns them to their silken beds ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beanties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright When their beloved Snn's awake ; — Those rnin'd shrines and towers that seem The relies of a splendid dream ; Amid whose... | |
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Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun's awake... 
