 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, no cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing...flowery beds that slumbrous influence kest, From poppies breathed ; and beds of pleasant green. Where never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime, unnumbered... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, lie cared even for play: Was nought around but images of rest: Sleep-soothing...groves, and quiet lawns between; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed; and beds of pleasant green, 1 Loril Byron said, "The... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...that [lass, Forever flushing round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights, that witchWas naught around but images of rest : •Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed; and beds of pleasant green, Where uever yet was creeping... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. 3. Was nought around but images of rest: Sleep-soothing...groves, and quiet lawns between; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed ; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1877 - 80 pages
...listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight11 could work, ne12 cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing...groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest,13 From poppies breathed ; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1877 - 560 pages
...imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. Was nought around but images of rest : Sleep-soothing groves and quiet lawns between; Aud flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed ; and beds of pleasant green.... | |
 | George Dennis - Architecture, Etruscan - 1878 - 648 pages
...ground, And in a season atwecn June and May Half prankt with spring, with summer half embrowned . . Is nought around but images of rest, Sleep-soothing groves,...flowery beds that slumb'rous influence kest From poppies breathed, and beds of pleasant green." Ever and anon the vine and the olive come in to enrich, and... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...listless climate made, where, sooth to say. No living wight could work, ne cared even for play. in. Was nought around but images of rest: Sleep-soothing...groves, and quiet lawns between ; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed ; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was... | |
 | George Dennis - Architecture, Etruscan - 1878 - 652 pages
...ground, And in a season atween June and May Half prankt with spring, with summer half embrowned . . Is nought around but images of rest, Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between. And flowery beds that slufhb'rous influence kest From poppies breathed, and beds of pleasant green." Ever and anon the vine... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...their light slumbers gently fumed away. THOMSON. Was naught around but images of rest, Sleep-sooth ing groves, and quiet lawns between, And flowery beds that slumb'rous influence kest, From poppies breathed, and banks of pleasant green, Where never yet was creeping creature seen. Meantime, unnumber'd... | |
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It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half... 
