 | Phebe Lankester - 1879 - 298 sider
...into life again by the warm rays of light. Moore poetically describes this natural process — ' ' Those virgin lilies all the night, Bathing their beauties...may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun 's awake." The stimulus of the sun's rays seems to have relation to the fertilization of the plant.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 594 sider
...sinking below it during the night, to rise again and expand in the sunlight. As Moore sings : — " These virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...fresh and bright When their beloved sun's awake." It is upon this glorious flower that Buddha site enthroned in each of the great images which represent... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 sider
...leaf-crowned heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, 1 M The Nile, which the Abyssinians know by the names of Abey and Alawy, or the Giant." — Asiat.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 544 sider
...leaf-crown'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ;t — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...Sun's awake ; — Those ruin'd shrines and towers that seerr The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loneliness Nought but the lapwing's cry is... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 sider
...Warns them to their silken beds ;7 — Tho«e virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties iu the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun's awake ; — > Objection* may be made to my nse or the word liberty, In this, and more especially in the story... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 548 sider
...leaf-crown 'd heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending, Warns them to their silken beds ; Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties...lapwing's cry is heard, Nought seen but (when the shadows flitting, Fast from the moon, unsheath its gleam) Some purple-wing'd sultana sitting Upon a column... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 sider
...15. I see the floating -water-lily, Gleam amid shadows dark and chilly. i. CAROLINE MAY— Lilies. Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...fresh and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake. ;'. MOORE— Lalla Kookh. Paradise and the Peri. Broad water-lilies lay tremulously, And starry river-buds... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1881 - 484 sider
...Theophrastus. 3 Dioscorides. 3 Pliny. 4 Athenseus. flowers, expanding in the morning and closing at night — Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties...more fresh and bright When their beloved sun's awake. Fig. 84. — Egyptian Lotus (Nymphaa stellata). Either white, blue, or rose-coloured, for there are... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1882 - 682 sider
...and bright, When their beloved Sun's awake ; — Those ruined shrines and towers that seem The relies of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loneliness...lapwing's cry is heard, Nought seen but (when the shadows, flitting Fast from the moon, unsheath its gleam,) Some purple-winged Sultana* sitting Upon a column,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1883 - 624 sider
...leaf-crowned heads, Like youthful maids, when sleep descending Warns them to their silken beds ; — Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties...bright, When their beloved Sun's awake ; — Those ruined shrines and towers that seem The relics of a splendid dream ; Amid whose fairy loneliness Nought... | |
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Those virgin lilies all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun's awake... 
