 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - 1847 - 490 pages
...displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brakoj so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air ; With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs : And he the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1849 - 332 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd J'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel...Our English fairies never trod! Yet who in Indian boo'rs has stood, But thought on England's " good green wood F And bless'd, beneath the palmy shade)... | |
 | George Trevor - 1849 - 328 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'erthebroad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes.f... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...Ceiba's gaudy pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air." We follow her among the Negro population, and the supple, indolent, passionate creóles, into the company... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...Cciba'e gtiuily pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's pri( kly blade ! While o'er the brake so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air." of "Mademoiselle deChnzeuil." She is the daughter of a distinguished French nobleman, who had married... | |
 | Francis Mason - 1850 - 746 pages
...under our tropic sky. " Thus winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and giant flowerWhile o'er the brake so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air ; Yet who in Indian bowers has stood But thought on England's ' good greenwood ; ' And blessed beneath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,2 Whose plumes the dames of Aya he moon. The rock shone bright, the kirk no less That...silentness The steady weathercock. And the bay was whi bleased, beneath the palmy shade, Her hazel and her hawthorn glade ; And breathed a prayer (how oft... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 pages
...crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad -plain tain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel...gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,(7) Whose plumes 'the dames of A va prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, . Our English fairies... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1853 - 348 pages
...Ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair The betel waves...gorgeous peacock springs ; And he the bird of hundred dyesf, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod Our English fairies never... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1853 - 352 pages
...Ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair The betel waves...gorgeous peacock springs ; And he the bird of hundred dyesf, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod Our English fairies never... | |
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With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; And he the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod Our English fairies never trod. Yet who in Indian bowers has stood, But thought... 
