 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 528 sivua
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. [Exit. SCENE II. Another Part of the Same. Enter MARIAN, Friar TUCK, JOHN, GEORGE-AGREEN, MUCH, Woodmen,... | |
 | 1817 - 522 sivua
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from its stalk ! But like the soft west-wind she shot along ; And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. (Exit.)" The sudden entrances and exits of the melancholy lover,... | |
 | 1882 - 870 sivua
...grow, The world may find the spring Ъу following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot." In the " Ode to Duty," Wordsworth, though with exquisite choice... | |
 | Dove - 1822 - 120 sivua
...hlow-hitll from its' stalk ! But like the soft west-wind she shot along And where she went, the flow'rs took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. * * # A Spring now she is dead! — of what? of thorn. i, Briars and hramhle, thistles, hurs, and docks... | |
 | 1832 - 206 sivua
...grass ! Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft West- wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. BEN JONSON. SAD SHEPHERD. TO THE DAISY. " By the murmur of a spring.... | |
 | 1836 - 808 sivua
...of grass. Or shake the downy blow-bell from its stalk ; But like the soft west wind she shot along. And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.' The last line is an improvement on a verse of Persius, a writer... | |
 | 1848 - 692 sivua
...-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west-wind she shot along. And where she went, the (lowers took thickest root As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot." The introduction of colour into the skirts of the figure I think in great good taste. The busts are... | |
 | 1867 - 796 sivua
...of grass, Or shake the downy bine bell from his stalk! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her oderous foot. The melody which gives so chaste and elegant a beauty to these lines... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 sivua
...of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.'''' Tennyson has a similar idea in The Talking Oak, but has added... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 sivua
...blade of grass, Or shake the downy blowball from his stalk But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them with her odorous foot. This delightful pastoral on the story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian... | |
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... and here ! and here ! Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow . The world may find the spring by following her, For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his... 
