| 1810 - 522 Seiten
...bead, And eyes half clos'd for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...head, And eyes half closed for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturned, aloft he flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane,... | |
| 1812 - 470 Seiten
...pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through \vood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his...comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucidsprings. Lo ' from his trunk upturned, aloft be flings The grateful shower; and now Plucking... | |
| Robert Southey - 1812 - 232 Seiten
...And eyes half-clos'd for pleasure, would he stand. Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. • 11. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertoppiug the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake . His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs.... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 Seiten
...head, And eyes hatf- clos' d for pleasure; woiM he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, ? And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel- grass , whose silvery feathers play Overlapping the young trees, On comes the Elepliant, to... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 Seiten
...head, And eyes half-clos'd for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle band. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...crackling fall before his w-ay, And tassel-grass, 57 v hose silvery fcaihers play O'ertoppiug the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst... | |
| 1830 - 824 Seiten
...head, And eyes half clos'd for pleasure, would he stand, Courting the pressure of her gentle hand. Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake... | |
| James Rennie - 1831 - 434 Seiten
...elephant also possesses the power of ejecting from his trunk, water and * Phil. Trans. f Journal yol.ip 182. dust, and his own saliva, over every part of...way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertoppingthe young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst, at noon, in yon pellucid springs.... | |
| 1832 - 486 Seiten
...A steam-engine, than of any mere animal force of which we have a cUar and accustomed conception. " Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes...way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play, O ertopping the young trees, On comes the elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs.... | |
| 1832 - 670 Seiten
...their habitations under ground. On the banks of those rivers, as Mr. Southey beautifully describes, " Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes, which crackling, fall belore bin way, And tassel -grass, whose silvery feathers play OVrtopping the young trees, On comes... | |
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