 COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.  The Sportsman - Sida 3271869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1901 - 674 sidor
...The Seasons " — Spring.) COHE, gentle Spring; ethereal mildness, come: And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 sidor
...to the earth — "Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come, And from the bosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." Who, from such a flimsy, roundabout, unmeaning commencement as this, would expect the delightful, unexaggerated,... | |
 | 1901 - 466 sidor
...MEEHAN. 22 WILD FLOWERS AND NATURE. WELCOME TO SPRING. Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. THOMSON. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON MIMULUS.... | |
 | 1881 - 398 sidor
...loves to appear. A reviving fragrance floats in the air. "Come! gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower, Of shadowing'roses, on our plains descend." The presence of onr Heavenly Father is marked in every step... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 sidor
...and innocent Spring, as descending to the earth. ' Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness ! come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiTd in a shower Ol shadowing roses, on our plains descend.' Who, from such a flimsy, round-about,... | |
 | Alfred Biese - 1905 - 394 sidor
...it contains many beautiful passages. For example : " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. His most artistic poem is Winter : When from the pallid sky the sun descends With many a spot, that... | |
 | 1870 - 574 sidor
...who ought to have known better, makes this blunder : " Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." But we may look on this invocation as a bit of a decorative picture into which the roses are introduced... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 sidor
...solitary stray ! JAMES THOMSON FROM THE SEASONS SPRING COME, gentle SPRING, — ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. ******* And see where surly Winter passes off, n Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : His... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 sidor
...solitary stray ! JAMES THOMSON FROM THE SEASONS SPRING COME, gentle SPRING, — ethereal mildness, come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. ******* And see where surly Winter passes off, n Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : His... | |
 | 1873 - 792 sidor
...day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray." POPE, " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music...a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! " THOMSON. " Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, Hoar Winter's blooming child, delightful... | |
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