 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - England - 1872 - 820 pages
...outline, and the whole length of the lake stretches out before the spectator, " with all its rairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." • The whole valley of Grasmere, in fact, teems with memorials of Words... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1873 - 516 pages
...Georgia's shore, when he talked to Ruth of green savannahs, and endless lakes, each with its fairy crowd of islands, that together lie as quietly as spots of sky among the evening clouds : " How pleasant, then," he said, " it were, a fisher or a hunter there, in sunshine or in shade to... | |
 | Drawing, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...of fear; Such tales as told to any maid By such a Youth, in the green shade, Were perilous to hear. And then he said, "How sweet it were A fisher or a...build a household fire, and find A home in every glade ! ' Sweet Ruth ! and could you go with me My helpmate in the woods to be, Our shed at night to rear... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - Great Britain - 1874 - 396 pages
...might have been just visited by new settlers. I thought of Ruth and her dreams of romantic love : ' And then he said how sweet it were, A fisher or a...a household fire, and find A home in every glade.' We found the main lake very stormy when we had left the shelter of the islands, and there was again... | |
 | Medina-Pomar (duque de.) - 1874 - 298 pages
...more we passed the open sea, where the surface of the water is so marvellously studded with " All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.'' Once more we entered the Kyles of Bute, which looked even grander and nobler now that the shades of... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and scem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannas spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all...fisher or a hunter there, A gardener in the shade, To build a household fire, and find A home in every glade ! " What days and what sweet years ! Our... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on lire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless,...quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. " How pleasant," then he said, " it were A fisher or a hunter there, in sunshine or in shade, To wander... | |
 | Emily Henriette Huddleston - 1875 - 302 pages
...that a twin soul to Bertie's looked out of its dreaming eyes. CHAPTER IV. LYNDON'S LANDING. All the fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. UNKNOWN. BLUEBELL had begun to feel herself in a false position. Freddy's lessons were, of course,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 pages
...the whole breadth of the lake is spanned by the eye, including All the fairy crowds Of islands which together lie, As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. At Inveruglas, з| miles beyond Luss, there is a ferry to Rowardennan Inn, the usual starting-point... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 640 pages
...extracted entire into a JL/ondoii newspaper (I think the " St. James's Chronicle.") It was a Canadian lake, — " With all its fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Amongst the evening clouds." The scene in the poem (•' Ruth ") that been originally mimicked by the... | |
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The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds. 
