 Came freshening, and reflecting all the scene : (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth you might, (I ween) Have guessed some congregation of the elves To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves...  Tom Cringle's Log - Page 264by Michael Scott - 1833 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...serene Came freshening, and reflecting all the scene : (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth you might, (I ween) Have...sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wandering stream ; Both where at... | |
 | Picture posies - 1874 - 266 pages
...serene Came fresh'ning, and reflecting all the scene : (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves :) So sweet a spot of earth you might (I ween) Have guessed...sport by Summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. • Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wand'ring stream ; Both where... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...resting-place serene Came fresh'ning, and reflecting all the scene: (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves;) and Nature fa themselves. II. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wand'ring stream... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 332 pages
...the belief. In speaking of Wales we might almost use Campbell's lines : — " You would have thought some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves." The Tyhcyth Teg, or ' Fair Family', is mentioned by the earliest of the Welsh bards, and especially... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 350 pages
...the belief. In speaking of Wales we might almost use Campbell's lines : — " You would have thought some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves." GORONYVY OWEN'S WOKKS. Gael eu rhent ar y pentan,6 A llwyr glod o bai llawr glan ; Canfod braisg widdon... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1880 - 852 pages
...mirror in the depth of flowery shelves;) So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween) Have guess'd some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. n. Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas open'd by the wandering stream ; Both where... | |
 | 1881 - 236 pages
...undulations, landward. Port Erin ia enchanted ground. There ai*e green secluded nooks about it that seem as if some congregation of the elves, to sport by summer moons, had shaped them for themselves. . . . Down in the lowermost part, where the cottages are nearest to the water,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1883 - 40 pages
...overlooked his lawn; And waters to their resting-place serene (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves ;) So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween) Have...sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. jt'et wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wandering stream ; Both were at... | |
 | 1887 - 410 pages
...overlooked his lawn; And waters to their resting-place serene (A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves;) So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween) Have...sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves. Vet wanted not the eye far scope to muse, Nor vistas opened by the wandering stream; Both were at evening... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1893 - 330 pages
...undulations, landward. Port Erin is enchanted ground! There are secluded nooks about it, that seem as if Some congregation of the elves, To sport by summer moons, had shaped them for themselves. The village is all under the eye. Down in the lowmost part, where the cottages... | |
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