 Ethiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie, What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers...  Elegant Extracts - Page 475edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm As pearls upon an .Mthiup's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the...lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face, Eyed... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - English poetry - 1858 - 314 pages
...of the itinerant painter, particularly in the well-known lines, — " See on the mountain's northern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening...How close and small the hedges lie ! What streaks of meadow cross the eye ! A step, methinks, might cross the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each gives each a double charm, As pearls' upon an Ethiop's arm....! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem : So we mistake the future's face,2 Eyed... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Bthiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the...lie! What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Eyed... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each...hedges lie ! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! * Grongar Hill is in the Vale of the Towy, South Wales ; the scenery of the valley being celebrated... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Outdoor life - 1865 - 116 pages
...ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and farm — Each gives each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm....How close and small the hedges lie ; What streaks of meadow cross the eye ! A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we... | |
 | Arnold James Cooley - Hospitals - 1865 - 264 pages
...Roughly rushing on the sky ; ' The mossy seat, the ruined tower, 'The naked rock, the shady bower; ' The town and village, dome and farm, — ' Each give...each a double charm, ' As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.'1 " Dyer was a bel esprit, that's evident. I feel as lie once felt. Here quiet reigns, and nature... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower ; The town and village, dome and furm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an ^Ethiop's...distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Eyed through hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors of the air, Which,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...bower ; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an jEthiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the...hedges lie ! What streaks of meadows cross the eye I A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's... | |
 | W. Samuel - Castles - 1868 - 216 pages
...hower, The town and village, dome and farm, Each gives each a double charm, As pearls upon an JEthiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the...lie ! What streaks of meadows cross the eye, A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little, distant, dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face,... | |
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