Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night display More wonders than it veiled : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible ; one while, they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that... Insect Miscellanies - Página 227por James Rennie - 1831 - 414 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 páginas
...From the wood-cover swarm'd, and darkness made • Their beauties visible : one while they stream'd A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now motiouless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower... | |
| Benedict Jaeger - 1859 - 448 páginas
...vail'd: innumerous tribes From the wood-coTer swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible ; a while they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colors from the eye of day ; Then, motionless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded; and anon, starring... | |
| Robert Southey - 1860 - 456 páginas
...visible; one while they streamed A bright-blue radiance upon flowers which closed Their gorgeous colors from the eye of day ; Now, motionless and dark, eluded...anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire. " Our friendly hosts Now led us to the hut, our that night's home, A rude and spacious dwelling. Twisted... | |
| Robert Southey - 1860 - 444 páginas
...visible ; one while they streamed A bright-blue radiance upon flowers which closed Their gorgeous colors from the eye of day ; Now, motionless and dark, eluded...search, Self-shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky, Hose like a shower of fire. " Our friendly hosts Now led us to the hut, our that night's home, A rude... | |
| Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 páginas
...More wonders than it veil'd : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarm'd, and darkness made Their beauties visible : one while they streamed A bright...search, Self-shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky, Hose like a shower of fire." There are many different kinds of luminous insects. One of them called... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 páginas
...More wonders than it veil'd : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible : one while they streamed A bright...flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from the eyes of day ; Now, motionless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded; and anon, starring the sky, lto.se... | |
| 1867 - 912 páginas
...visible; one while they streamed, A light-blue radiance, upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colors to the eye of day; Now, motionless and dark, eluded search,...anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire." Love» of the Pianti. The fire-flies of the West Indies are far more luminous than the glow-worm, and... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1867 - 494 páginas
...More wonders than it veiled; innumerable tribes From the wood-cover swarm'd, and darkness made Their beauties visible: one while they streamed A bright...blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colors from the eye of day; Now, motionless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded; and anon, starring... | |
| Entomological Society of Ontario - 1872 - 416 páginas
...tribes From the wood cover swarm'd and darkness made Their beauties visible ; one while they stream'd A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their...eye of day ; Now motionless and dark, eluded search, Self -shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky, Rise like a shower of fire. " In England they have but... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1872 - 322 páginas
...visible : one while they stream'd A bright blue radianceb upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous0 colors from the eye of day ; Now, motionless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded ;d and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire. 0 iN-Nn'-MER-ouS, too many to be counted.... | |
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