 Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew; Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques...  The Vision of Sir Launfal - Page 37by James Russell Lowell - 1921 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1849 - 276 pages
...sight; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved forest-crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit...the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, Which crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...sight ; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipped Down through a frost-leaved forest crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit...But silvery mosses that downward grew ; Sometimes it wab carved in sharp relief, With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf; Sometimes it was simply smooth... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees, Bending to counterfeit a breeze ; 292 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew • But silvery...the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, Which crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pages
...sight ; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved forest crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees, Bending to counterfeit...the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, Which crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pages
...waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved forest crypt, Long sparkling aisles of steel -stemmed treea Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes, the roof...it was simply, smooth and clear For the gladness of heav'n to shine through ; and hero lie had caught the nodding bulrush-tops, And hung tlioin thickly... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pages
...sight; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved forest crypt, Long sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ; Sometimes, the roof no fret-work know, But silvery mosses that downward grew ; Sometimes it was carved, in sharp'relief, With quaint... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 46 pages
...frost-leaved forest-crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a hreeze ; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses...the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, Which crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...sight ; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved forest-crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit...the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...tinkling waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved, forest-crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of stsel-ste mm'd trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze ; Sometimes...shine through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, Which crystall'd the beams of moon and sun,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...sight; Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt Down through a frost-leaved forest-crypt, Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit...clear For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and It had gathered all the cold, here No mortal builder's most rare device Could match this winter-palace... | |
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