 Lo.! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower, They, idly fluttering, live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring...  The Naturalist's Library - Page 92edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 268 pages
...length assured, they catch the favouring gale, And leave their sordid spoils, and high in ether sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched man : His course with toil concludes, with pain began, No. 144.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1871 - 530 pages
...length assured, they catch the favouring gale, And leave their sordid spoils, and high in ether sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched man : His course with toil concludes, with pain began, No. 144.... | |
 | Circling year - 1872 - 228 pages
...or the acquisition of knowledge. The collector may rise higher than Mrs. Barbauld's pretty lines : " Lo the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With...All Spring their age, and sunshine all their day." The proofs and illustrations of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the habits... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 144 pages
...length assured, they catch the favouring gale, And leave their sordid spoils, and high in ether sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched man : His course with toil concludes, with pain began, No. 144.... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 pages
...their busy hum, and see their light flitting forms in our houses, gardens, fields, woods, and lanes ? "Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold -r On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They, idly fluttering, live their little hour ; Their life... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...length assured, they catch the favouring gale, And leave their sordid spoils, and high in ether 1 sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. What atom forms of insect life appear ! And who can follow Nature's pencil here ? Their wings with... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Authors, English - 1874 - 484 pages
...disclose, And a gay troop of damsels round him stood, Where late was rugged bark and lifeless wood. Lo the bright train their radiant wings unfold ! With...their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their talk all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1874 - 488 pages
...disclose, And a gay troop of damsels round him stood, Where late was rugged bark and lifeless wood. Lo the bright train their radiant wings unfold ! With...their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their talk all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched... | |
 | Village flower-show - 1875 - 84 pages
...Beaumont told Julia to learn in the meantime Mrs. Barbauld's beautiful lines about butterflies : ' Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. What atom forms of insect life appear ! And who can follow Nature's pencil there ? Their wings with... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1878 - 364 pages
...flutterers, as well as to these gay foreigners, we may apply the well-known lines of Mrs. Barbauld — ' So the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.' We introduce here an extract from "The Naturalist," which gives a vivid picture of the association... | |
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