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" Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight,... "
The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 37
1835
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Works of Charles Lamb: Edited and Dramatic Tales, Essays and Critisms

Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy foot, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : There like a bird it sits and sings. Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared for longer (light, Waves in its plumes...
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Songs of Three Centuries

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, t':usting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings. Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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Favorite Odes and Poems: By Collins, Dryden and Marvell

William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...seas, Annihilating all that 's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot. Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting...boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors. With Explanatory ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1878 - 488 pages
...To a green thoughi in a green shade. Here, at the fountain.s sliding foot, Or at some fnlit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul...boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then wets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer Might, Waves in its plumes...
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Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Castmg the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's Test ? ! 낀 退 0 ߹ " sings, Then wets and clasps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight. Waves in its plumes...
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The Family Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best ...

William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...plants will grow ; Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting...boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...seas, Annihilating all that 's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting...boughs does glide : There like a bird it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepared lor longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting...boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...seas, Annihilating all that 's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting...boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes...
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