 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - 1846 - 480 pages
...ceiba's erimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his erest in air ; With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs : And he the... | |
 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - 1847 - 490 pages
...displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brakoj so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air...shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ! Yet who in Indian bowers has stood, But thought of England's good ' green wood ;' And blessed, beneath... | |
 | George Trevor - 1849 - 328 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'erthebroad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel...gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes.f Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never... | |
 | 1850 - 890 pages
...Cciba'e gtiuily pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's pri( kly blade ! While o'er the brake so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air." of "Mademoiselle deChnzeuil." She is the daughter of a distinguished French nobleman, who had married... | |
 | 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 creóles, into the company... | |
 | Francis Mason - 1850 - 746 pages
...under our tropic sky. " Thus winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and giant flowerWhile o'er the brake so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air ; Yet who in Indian bowers has stood But thought on England's ' good greenwood ; ' And blessed beneath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel wares you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it...early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till dyes,2 Whose plumes the dames of Aya prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 pages
...crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad -plain tain'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)... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1853 - 350 pages
...Ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; 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 dyesf,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1853 - 348 pages
...Ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; 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 dyesf,... | |
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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 pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... 
