 Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i  Comus: A Mask - Page 42by John Milton - 1808 - 89 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, rnt Less overweening, sinco : [ look it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...his supper sat; 1 saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their...was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their...creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill. 43 colors of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, the vernal year. Nor to the surface of enliven'd Earth,...is thy force confin'd : But to the bowel'd cavern colors of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...give me back the wild freshness of morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth evening's best light. 1 I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i'th plighted clouds. 2 A wilderness of sweets ; for nature here Wanton'd as... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 450 pages
...that the Church had been purified from idolatry ; and Frederic and Elizabeth believed it to be a fairy vision, " Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live And dwell in the pighted clouds." Meantime, in spite of the gathering storm, Elizabeth... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...his supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots; Their...was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | 1846 - 708 pages
...after her brothers. Coraus^ with many rustic metaphors, tells her where he saw them, and " Took them for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. — I was awe struck ;" and offers finally to guide... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their...was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play... | |
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