| Adrian Hardy Haworth - Lepidoptera - 1803 - 430 pages
...joyously at intervals, with each other : or gayly perched, sip nectar from their favourite flowers. " Lo the bright train their radiant wings unfold. "..." On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower, " They sweetly flutt'ring, live their little hour; ш " Their life all pleasure, and their task all play,... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...length assur'd, they catch the fav'ring gale And leave'their sordid spoils, and high in tether sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They idly flutt'ring live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...troop of damsels round him stood, Where lute was rugged bark and lifeless wood. Lo ! the bright t.ain their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold : On the «ay bosom of some fragrant flower They idly fluttering live their little hour; Their life all pleasure,... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...sordid spoils, and high in sether sail. Lo the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With ilver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold. § On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They idly flutt'ring live their little hour, Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...length assur'd, they catch the fav'ring gale, And leave their sordid spoils, and high in aether sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They idly nutt'ring live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their... | |
| Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1820 - 136 pages
...lifeless wood. Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold ! With silver fring'd, and freckl'd o'er with gold : On the gay bosom of some fragrant...They, idly fluttering, live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, AH spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...spoils, and high in ether sail I Lo J the bright train, their radiant wings unfold With silver fring'd, and freckled o'er with gold; On the gay bosom of some fragrant flow'r They idly fluttering live their little hour, Their life all pleasure, and their task all play,... | |
| Animal welfare - 1822 - 184 pages
...length assur'd, they catch the fav'ring gale, And leave their sordid spoils, and high in xther sail. Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold. With...On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower, They idly flutt'rinj live their little hour; Their life all pleasure, and their ta*k all play, All spring their... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...in ether sail. Lo ! the bright train .their radiant wings unfold, With silver fring'd, and speckled o'er with gold : On the gay bosom, of some fragrant flower, They idly flutt'ring, live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...disclose, And a gay troop of damsels round him itood, Where late was rugged bark and lifeless wood. Lo 1 the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With...They idly fluttering live their little hour; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. 3JuIj)... | |
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