| John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 772 pages
...skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings, 215 Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd; His purple pinions opening to the sun, He raised his... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...tincture of the skies, Where light disports -in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle on the gilded mast, Superior by the head was Ariel placed ; His purple pinions opening to the sun, He raised his... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd; His purple pinions op'ning to the sun, He rais'd his azure wand, and 'thus begun. Ye Sylphs and Sylphids, to your chief give ear! Fays,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd ; His purple pinions op'ning to the sun, He rais'd his... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings-, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd ; His purple pinions op'ning to the sun, He rais'd his... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast. Superior by the head, was Ariel placed ; His purple pinions opening to the sun, He raised his... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes ; While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd ; His purple pinions op'ning to the sun, He rais'd his... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light. . . . While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel placed ; His purple pinions opening to the Sun, He raised his... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes; While every beam new transient color« flings, Colors u never wert — That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In p mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel placed : His purple pinions opening to the sun. He raised his... | |
| Kathleen Knox - English language - 1882 - 156 pages
...»/ ji j Colours that change, whene'er they wave their wings. 40 Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head was Ariel plac'd ; His purple pinions op'ning to the sun, He rais'd his azure wand and thus begun : Ye Sylphs and Sylphids, to your chief give ear, 45 Pays,... | |
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