 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 strani
...reply ; " To-day I saw the dragon-fly " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." I said, " When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 strani
...Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." I said, " When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 strani
...Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." I said, " When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 strani
...reply ; " To-day I saw the dragon-fly " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." I said, " When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 320 strani
...reply, ' To-day I saw the dragon-fly An inner impulse rsnt the veil Of his old husk — from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings — like gauze they grew, Through crofts and pastures wet with dew, A living flash of light he flew.' I said, ' when first the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 328 strani
...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings — like gauze they grew, Through crofts and pastures wet with dew, A living flash of light he flew.' I said, ' when first the world hegan, Young nature through five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 strani
...from the wells where he did lie,' An inner Impulse rent the veil Of his old husk — from head to tall Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings— like gauze they grew, Through crofts and pastures wet with dew, A living flash of light he flew. I said, ' when first the... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 strani
...food, or for the purpose of propagation. An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; Through crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. Miss Mitford, who is ever... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 strani
...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; Through crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. Miss Mitford, who is ever an accurate and intelligent observer of nature, tells us, that " walking... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 strani
...Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." I said, " When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded... | |
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To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. 'An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk; from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 'He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with... 
