To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like gauze they grew Thro' crofts and pastures wet with... Chapters of Erie: And Other Essays - Página 354por Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams - 1871 - 429 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 páginas
...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. ' He dried his wings : like gauze they grew ; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.' I said, ' When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
| Julia McNair Wright - 1891 - 394 páginas
...tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings, like gauze they grew; Thro' copse and pastures wet with dew, A living flash of light he flew." We should not forget that each one of the earth-building ages had some particular form of animal life... | |
| Entomological Society of Ontario - 1894 - 518 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear platea of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; Thro" crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." — Trnnyion. The early stages of many forms can be advantageously studied in aquaria, for the life... | |
| 1895 - 982 páginas
...inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew: Through...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." But still, through all its splendour, may be traced in the dragon-fly the malign lineaments of the... | |
| 1895 - 850 páginas
...Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mall." "He dries his winirs; like gauze they grew; Through crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." At this stage will be given two objects. One of these is from the realm of Biology; the other from... | |
| Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1895 - 752 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear platen of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." — Tennytun. The early stages of many forms can be advantageously studied in aquaria, for the life... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." Keats's touches are often accurate enough for science, and free and pictorial enough for poetry. "... | |
| Louis Compton Miall - 1895 - 416 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings : like gauze they grew, Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. The larva; inhabit water, for the most part standing water, where they subsist by capturing living... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 344 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 'He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.' I said, 'When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." Keats's touches are often accurate enough for science, and free and pictorial enough for poetry. "... | |
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