 Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the...  Knowledge for the People ... - Page 93by John Timbs - 1832Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; 165 And wait th' approaching sign to strike at once, Into the general choir. Ev'n mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign, to strike at once Into the gen'ral choir. E'en mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The tailing verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil. To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, 165 And wait th' approaching sign to strike at once Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; 165 And wait th* approaching sign to strike at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense, ' The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign to strike, at once,' Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring jeye The falling verdure. Huslfd in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off: And wait the' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. Even mountains,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hush'd in short suspense. The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off; And wait th' approaching sign to strike, at once, Into the general choir. £Vn mountains,... | |
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