| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of GUI ' in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive utiful than our fantastic sky, And the strange constellations...her wild universe is skilful to diffuse : VII. I s color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive it short, did the great god Pan, (How tall it 446 447 \Vhere the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may... | |
| Charles Swain Thomas - 1917 - 388 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul (rose) in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins... | |
| Saint Louis Railway Club, St. Louis Railway Club - 1917 - 410 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit. And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the times of the earth and the lines of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie?" As to the... | |
| Roger Sprague - 1917 - 392 pàgines
...came the voluptuous lines of Byron : "Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine."... | |
| Roger Sprague - 1917 - 398 pàgines
...clothed with the many tints of the tropical forest, and to his mind came the voluptuous lines of Byron : "Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins... | |
| Leo Thomas Butler - 1917 - 168 pàgines
...oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of (iul * in her bloom ; Where citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; — HINTS. 1. Know ye what land mingles (indicative) the myrtle (pi.) with the cypress (pi.), 2.... | |
| Mary Belle Hooton - 1918 - 182 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins... | |
| Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pàgines
...oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale...beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye." Properly speaking, this is not description, in the modern sense, at all. Indeed Byron's sense... | |
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