 | 1814 - 310 pages
...of land : A pond before, full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim ; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye and to the feet ; . . Where odorous plants, in evening fair, Breathe all around ambrosial air ; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim ; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet...od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air; . I:.'. From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground, Fenc'd by a slope with bushes crown'd, Fit... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 462 pages
...of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool and geese may swim ; Behind a green, like velvet neat, Soft to the eye and to the feet; Where odorous plants, in evening fair, Breathe all around ambrosial air; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Breathe all around ambrosial air ; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground, Fenc*d by a slope with bushes crown'd, Fit dwelling for the feather'd throng, Who pay their quit-rents with a song ; With op'ning views of hill and dale, Which sense and fancy too regale, Where the half-cirque,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 364 pages
...of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim ; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet;...od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air ; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground, Fenc'd by a slope with bushes crown'd, Fit dwelling... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...Breathe all around ambrosial air ; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground, Fenced by a slope with bushes crown'd, Fit dwelling for the feather'd throng, Who pay their quitrents with a song; With opening views of hill and dale, Which sense and fancy too regale, Where the half-cirque,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 282 pages
...of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim ; Behind a green, like velvet neat, Soft to the eye and to the feet; Where odorous plants, in evening fair, Breathe all around ambrosial air; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 186 pages
...of land. A pond before, full to the brim, Where cows may cool and geese may swim. Behind, a green, like velvet neat, Soft to the eye and to the feet ; Where odorous plants in evening fair, Breathe all around sweet fragrant air. From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...of laud; A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim ; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in ev'ning fair Breathe all around ambrosial air ; From Eurus, foe to kitchen ground^ Fenc'd by a slope... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 346 pages
...the spray of this shrub during the whole winter, affording food to the bullfinch and thrush, and a " Fit dwelling for the feather'd throng, Who pay their quit-rents with a song." GREEN. t The leaves of the privet feed the sphynx ligustri, or privet hawk moth ; and the phalcena... | |
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And may my humble dwelling stand Upon some chosen spot of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe... 
