 | 1893 - 736 pages
...to be the best. But turn to Enoch Arden on his island. ' The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawn And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the... | |
 | David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
..., fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning "wait." The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven r The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird , The lustre... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1913 - 1092 pages
...fashion, fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning ' wait.' May, of May, О grief for the promise of May. I don't k lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | Readers - 1914 - 304 pages
...fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God's warning, " Wait." The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | Marietta Knight - English language - 1914 - 228 pages
...clouds drifted heavily along. The rain was one dull, continued, monotonous patter-patter-patter. 9. The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns, And winding...heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses, That coiled around the... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1914 - 730 pages
...mossy earth of trees. HOR. HUTCHINSON, The Insect-Hunter (Westm. Qaz. , No. 5329, 4c). convolvulus. The lustre of the long convolvuluses \ That coil'd around the stately stems. TEN., Enoch Arden, 571. crisis. It is the duty of the Government, when crises of this kind arise, to... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1915 - 356 pages
...tropical island on which the sailor is thrown, is an absolute model of adorned art : — VOL. IV. 19 " The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 328 pages
...left alone on an island close to the tropics. Read the extract, keeping in mind these conditions : The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding...heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 352 pages
...clearing or open space in a wood." So the two words convey about the same meaning ; and we must picture the lawns and winding glades high up like ways to heaven. The next line is absolutely meaningless until we learn that "coco" is "the palm-tree that produces cocoanuts:... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - Elocution - 1915 - 328 pages
...clearing or open space in a wood." So the two words convey about the same meaning ; and we must picture the lawns and winding glades high up like ways to heaven. The next line is absolutely meaningless until we learn that "coco" is "the palm-tree that produces cocoanuts... | |
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The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems,... 
