twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run... The Retrospective Review - Page 1831825Full view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Two paradises are in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flowers ndall a )9 flowers '. [A Whimsical Satire on Holland.*] Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run ; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers! " One of his longer poems, " Appleton House," contains passages... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run ; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers ! " One of his longer poems, " Appleton House," contains passages... | |
| Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...new ! Where, from above- the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How...and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers ?* The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing. Most of... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...new ! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How...such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herba and flowers ?"• The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing.... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...the milder sun Does through a fragrant Zodiac run: And as it works the industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours, Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers 7 does the new dial mean ? Is there really nothing new under the... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...zodiac run : THE GARDEN. 41 And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. I How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd but with herbs and flowers? f jjt toal Jtfrs. II. ui,i us "VTOW the lucid tears of May Gem the blossoms of the spray ;... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes its time a» well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers ! [AW/iimtical Satire on Holland.*] Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but... | |
| 1854 - 362 pages
...milder sun Docs through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd but with herbs and flowers ? Sjyofotr. Mn. ffeman*. "VTOW the lucid tears of May Gem the blossoms of the spray ; Every... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run: And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes the time, as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned, but with herbs and flowers. Andrew MarvelJ. In a garden — man was placed, Meet abode for... | |
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