While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon, Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez, and spiced dainties, every... Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author ... - Page 429by Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...Affray his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...Affray his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the clpset brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...Affray his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. he desert I love to ride, With the silent Hush-boy alone by my side, Away lavendercd ; While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...his ears, though but in dying tone: — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. XXX. tist plies the sickly trade ; Here while the proud...midnight reign, Here, richly deck'd, admits the gorgeous tinöt with cinnamon ; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and spiced dainties, every... | |
| Lounger in society the pseud - Etiquette - 1881 - 374 pages
...Porphyro prepared, in golden dishes and baskets bright of wreathed silver, for his beautiful Madeline : ' A heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd...spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand tocedar'd Lebanon.'* There is here, perhaps, an excess of sweetness, as in Mr. Swinburne's alliterative... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...Affray his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd... | |
| American literature - 1881 - 520 pages
..." Soft he set A table, and, half anguished, threw thereon Л cloth of woven crimson, g*ld and jet. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep. In blanched linen, smooth and lavendered. While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd... | |
| James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1881 - 412 pages
...Affray his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered ; While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. XXX. rbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, A lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd... | |
| John Keats - 1882 - 440 pages
...his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. XXX. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched...creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon j Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand... | |
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