 but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness in the air ; I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2791865Full view - About this book
 | Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 648 pages
...was walking alone in my garden last night: there was great stillness among the branches and flowcrs, and more than common sweetness in the air, I heard a low and pleasant sound, and knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession... | |
 | 1867 - 968 pages
...answered, " but not before last night. There was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and a more than common sweetness in the air. I heard a low and pleasant sound, and knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 772 pages
...Blake ; " but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden : there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness...sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw a broad leaf of a flower move ; and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and color... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pages
...before last night. I was walking alone in my garden : there was great stillness among the branches aYid flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air....sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw a broad leaf of a flower move ; and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and color... | |
 | 1875 - 558 pages
...Blake ; "but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden; there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness...in the air : I heard a low and pleasant sound, and knew not whence it ca'ue : at last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath 1 .-cnv a... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 274 pages
...a fairy's funeral. " I was walking alone in my garden," he said ; " there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness...and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a VOL. II. N body laid out oil a rose-leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist - 1880 - 550 pages
...' but not before last night. I was ' walking alone in my garden ; there was great stillness among ' the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness...air ; I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew AT. 43—44.l POET HAYLEY AND FELPHAM. l6l ' not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of '... | |
 | 1888 - 742 pages
...appeared to him in vision. When he walked in the garden at Felpham by night he saw "a fairy funeral" — "a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf." " Dear Sculptor of Eternity," so he writes... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1892 - 328 pages
...instance which he records of himself : ' I was walking alone in my garden, there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness...sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw a broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour... | |
 | 1907 - 1014 pages
...Blake, " but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden ; there was a great stillness among the branches and flowers and more than common sweetness...underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and color of green and gray grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with... | |
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