 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
 | 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. "... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 páginas
...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze thej' 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. "... | |
 | James Russell Miller - 1895 - 148 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." This dragon-fly of the darkness and the mire now breathes heaven's sweet air. It has wings, which unfold... | |
 | 1896 - 168 páginas
...inner impulse rent the vail 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. 17. The idea at the end of v. 16 is amplified. Thy crowned] The word is unknown. It is probably an... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests - 1896 - 498 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 larvae of the dragon-fly, under the name of the " What is it," was said to have been " discovered... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1897 - 338 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.' No description could be at once more faithful and more poetic; but what bard has dared to describe... | |
 | John Henry Comstock - 1897 - 390 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...and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he Hew. CHAPTER V. BROOK LIFE. 'N a deep ravine, where a hill stream tumbles down a stairway of rocks,... | |
 | Mark Guy Pearse - 1898 - 300 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. And to turn from poetry to homeliest prose. A while ago I held in my hand a strange sort of nut, a... | |
 | 1898 - 730 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 emerged from the egg in the shallow basin of a fountain in a small rockery. It breathed through... | |
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