 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pages
...crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plaintain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; iVhilc 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)... | |
 | Mrs. O'Neill - 1835 - 214 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,... | |
 | Mrs. O'Neill - 1835 - 502 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 ai r. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed 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. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs. And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | 1838 - 348 pages
...prickly hlade; While o'er the hrake, so wild and fair, The hetel waves his erest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; And he, the hird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. 60 rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English... | |
 | Lyre - 1841 - 374 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 - 1841 - 366 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While u'er rt Chambers dyes,1* Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our Knglish fairies never... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...Ceiba's gaudy 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." We follow her among the Negro population, and the supple, indolent, passionate creoles, into the company... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...2 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... | |
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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... 
