 In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.  The Athenaeum - Page 4431828Full view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Historic buildings - 1872 - 602 pages
...mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wildfowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pages
...first letter of the following series was, it will be seen, written a few days before he left Diodati. Around : the wild fowl nestled In the brake And sedges,...stood With their green faces fixed upon the flood." Canto xlil. st. 570 LETTER 247. TO MR. MURRAY. " Diodatl, Oct. 5. 1816. " Save me a copy of ' Buck's... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...take In currents through the calmer water spread Byron. Conceited Philosophy, Around ; the wild-fowl nestled' in the brake And sedges, brooding in their...stood With their green faces fixed upon the flood. Its outlet dashed into a deep cascade, Sparkling with foam until again subsiding, Its shriller echoes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 996 pages
...mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its softened way did take In currents through the calmer water...in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid beO : The woods sloped downward to its brink, and stood With their green faces fixed upon the flood."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 380 pages
...mansion lay a lucid Lake,i5 Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wildfowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 pages
...mansion lay a lucid Lake,15 Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wildfowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Derbyshire (England) - 1874 - 350 pages
...deep and freshly fed By a river, which its sotteu'd way did take In currents through the calmer waters spread Around ; the wild fowl nestled in the brake...downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood. I did remind thee of our own dear lake By the old Hall, which may be mine no... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 pages
...mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild-fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 288 pages
...mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its softened way did take In currents through the calmer water spread Around; the wild-fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - Fishes - 1877 - 432 pages
...mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed By a river, which its soften'd way did take In currents through the calmer water...downwards to its brink, and stood, With their green faces fix'd upon the flood." Green, of course, in summer, but brown enough and bare enough when we went a-fishing.... | |
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