 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 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,... | |
 | George Smith - 1895 - 418 pages
...flower ; The ceiba's crimson pomp display'd \ O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, }And dusk ananas' prickly blade ; J 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,... | |
 | John Ferguson - 1902 - 176 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'dj O'er the broad plain tain's humbler shade > And dusk anana's pr1ckly blade ; J While o'er the brake, so wild and fair,...shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod I Yet who in Indian bow'r has stood, But thought on England's " good green wood? And bless'd, beneath... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - 424 pages
...ceiba's crimson 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 crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,2... | |
 | Theodore Douglas Dunn - 1921 - 168 pages
...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...shade, so green a sod Our English fairies never trod. Yet who in Indian bowers has stood, But thought on England's " good green wood," And bless'd beneath... | |
 | Theodore Douglas Dunn - 1921 - 166 pages
...ceiba's crimson 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 crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; And he the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | 1850 - 644 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... | |
 | Christine E. Jackson - 2006 - 196 pages
...jump-jet Harrier, that Bishop Heber had closely observed the living birds: With pendant train and rustling wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs; And he,...hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. The Reverend Reginald Heber (1783-1826) was an English divine and hymn writer, inducted into the family... | |
 | 1897 - 866 pages
...DYES. " — Bishop Heber in ' An Evening Walk in Bengal ' writes : — With pendent train and milling wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he,...bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava priie. Will any one kindly tell me what bird is referred to in the third and fourth lines ? JAJ [It... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pages
...hi-; crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs , And be, the bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so greeii a sod, Our English fnries never trod ; Yet who in Indian bo Wr has stood, But thought on England's... | |
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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,... 
