 | Agnes Strickland - 1830 - 230 pages
...poem, entitled " An Evening Walk in Bengal," in Bishop Heber's Journal, the peacock is thus mentioned : With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous...hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. In our climate the peacock does not come to perfection in size and colour under three years. The peahen... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1830 - 204 pages
...prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock...springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes (he dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ; Yet who in... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1830 - 200 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing win^s, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1830 - 210 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous-peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1830 - 204 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plaintain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,(7)... | |
 | John Statham - 1832 - 570 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humble shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air." HEBER. MORNING'S RIDE — BULLOCKS FRIGHTENED — GIGANTIC CREEPER JACKALS — MANGOOSE AND SNAKE IDOL... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
...cciba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plaintain'e humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,(7)... | |
 | 1834 - 672 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock spnngs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
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With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ; Yet who in Indian bow'r has stood, But... 
