 | James Silk Buckingham - 1828 - 628 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp display 'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp display 'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; * A shrub whose deep scarlet... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 Seiten
...Moslems' savoury supper steams, While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; With pendent train and rushing wings, And he, the bird of hundred... | |
 | Thomas Robinson - 1830 - 398 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel...shade, so green a sod, Our English Fairies never trod ! Yet who in Indian bower has stood, But thought on England's " good green wood ?" And bless'd, beneath... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1830 - 230 Seiten
...poem, entitled " An Evening Walk in Bengal," in Bishop Heber's Journal, the peacock is thus mentioned : With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous...hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. In our climate the peacock does not come to perfection in size and colour under three years. The peahen... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1830 - 204 Seiten
...prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock...springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes (he dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ; Yet who in... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1830 - 200 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing win^s, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1830 - 204 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1830 - 210 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous-peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 Seiten
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
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O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... 
