 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1854 - 564 pages
...the screams of the imprisoned green parrots. » . > / i XXVIII. BATAVIA — THE OLD TOWN AND THE NEW. Come on! yet pause! Behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough, i Where gemming oft that sacred gloom Glows the geranium's scarlet bloom,* And winds our path through... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder at the gate of death ! Come on ! Yet pause 1 behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough, Where, gemming oft that sacred gloom, Glow's the geranium's scarlet bloom,* And winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and... | |
 | Helen (aunt, pseud.) - 1862 - 164 pages
...silver paper, and set them on wheels, putting a small taper inside. CHAPTEK IX. THE USEFUL TREE. " Come on ! yet pause ! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough." THERE are many trees in China both, beautiful and useful ; of some of them I have already told you.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe Fit warder in the gate...bough, Where gemming oft that sacred gloom Glows the geraninm's scarlet bloom, And winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and giant flower... | |
 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 pages
...parch'd and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder in the gate...arched bough, Where, gemming oft that sacred gloom, Gleams the geranium's scarlet bloom, And winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and giant... | |
 | John Ferguson - 1902 - 176 pages
...haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Pit warder in the gate of Death I Come on I Yet pause ! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched...bough, Where, gemming oft that sacred gloom, Glows the geraninm's scarlet bloom,* And winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and giant flower... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - 424 pages
...parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe Fit warder in the gate of Death. Com. on I — yet pause 1 Behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough, Where, gemming oft that... | |
 | Toru Dutt, Harihar Das - 1921 - 412 pages
...parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, The peepul spreads its haunted shade, Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder in the gate of death ! Some parts of your letter have gladdened my heart so much, dear, that I read them over and over again.... | |
 | 1850 - 644 pages
...scenes filled the heart of Heber with a glorious comprehension of the beautiful, while wandering " beneath the bamboo's arched bough"— Where gemming...our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and crimson flower. • The Ceiba's gaudy pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pages
...parched and dry, Where o'er some tower in ruin laid, TbekpeepnE spreads its haunted shade ; Or round a tomb his scales to wreathe, Fit warder in the gate...on ! Yet pause ! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arcbed bough, Where, gemming oft that sacred gloom, Glows the geranium's scarlet bloom,* And winds... | |
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Come on ! Yet pause ! — behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough, Where gemming oft that sacred gloom, Glows the geranium's scarlet bloom, And winds our path through many a bower, Of fragrant tree and... 
