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...e father of the fight, Who snatched, on Alexandria’s sand, The conqueror’s wreath with dying hand. “Or, if to touch such chord be thine, Restore th... ...ials with dismay Beheld, Sir Knight, the grisly sire, In his unwonted wild attire; Unwonted, for traditions run, He seldom thus beheld the sun. ‘I kno... ...th his dogs repine; Whistling and cheering them to aid, Around his back he wreathes the plaid: His flock he gathers, and he guides, T o open downs, an... ...ted ray. 113 Sir Walter Scott XXVII. Thin curling in the morning air, The wreaths of failing smoke declare, To embers now the brands decayed, Where t... ...the distant city glow With gloomy splendour red; For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The mor... ...t deep in shade; There on their brows the moonbeam broke Through the faint wreaths of silvery smoke, And on the casements played. And other ligh...

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...ir princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchanged them for such mean attire as ordinary people wore. By and by, they come to have a wild and hom... ...undance of flowers, with which she would make each of her kind playmates a wreath. “O no, dear Proserpina,” cried the sea nymphs; “we dare not go with... ...efore the surf wave has broken ten times over you. I long to make you some wreaths that shall be as lovely as this necklace of many colored shells.” “... ...o rejoin the sea nymphs, and sit with them on the moist sands, all twining wreaths together. But, a little farther on, what should she behold? It was ... ... only to run a little way upon the dry land, and gather some flowers for a wreath. This was early in the day, and we have seen nothing of her since.” ... ...when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her hand and a wreath of withered poppies on her head, they spoke rudely, and sometimes th... ...broidered, and were tied upon his feet with strings of gold. But his whole attire was such as people did not very often see; and as he passed along, t...

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...e imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance. Though more scantily attired than she might have been she was dressed with perfect neatness, and... ... and sallow face would still have been strong wit nesses against him. His attire was not, as he had him self hinted, remarkable for the nicest arran... ...ll outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwo... ... mounds, beneath which slept poor humble men: twin ing for them the first wreaths they had ever won, but wreaths less liable to wither and far more l... ... being struck anywhere with the knuckles, sounded like a drum. And in this attire, rather wonder ing that he attracted so little attention, and attri... ...tness; and Mary Queen of Scots in a dark wig, white shirt collar, and male attire, was such a com plete image of Lord Byron that the young ladies qui... ...ent fit of coughing, he slightly stirred the smoke and scattered the heavy wreaths by which they were obscured. In the midst of this atmosphere, which... ...ee the goddess crowned with those garlands of wild flowers which tradition wreathes for her gentle wear ing, and which are often freshest in their ho... ...rth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust! Many a young hand dropped in its little wreath, many a stifled sob was heard. Some—and they were not a few—knelt do...

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...st Thames’s shores, &c. VER. 61-68 Originally thus in the MS.— Go, flowery wreath, and let my Sylvia know, Compared to thine how bright her beauties s... ... a silent shower. Accept, O Garth 9 the Muse’s early lays, That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays; 10 Hear what from love ... ...est flowers design, And in one garland all their beauties join; Accept the wreath which you deserve alone, In whom all beauties are comprised in one. ... ...spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring! See lofty L... ... circled green, Or virgins visited by angel-powers, With golden crowns and wreaths of heavenly flowers; Hear and believe! thy own importance know, Nor... ...d youths and painted chiefs admire Our speech, our colour, and our strange attire! O stretch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to shore, Till conquest... ...herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter ... ... Has God, thou fool! work’d solely for thy good, Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindl...

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... and on the work-table itself, growing under the master’s hand, was a long wreath, entirely composed of leaves and seed-vessels in their quaint and be... ...t. But should they all be seed and fruit?” “Yea, truly, my Stina, for this wreath shall speak of the goodly fruits of a completed life.” “Even as that... ...ry German maiden, she cherished in her window, to supply her future bridal wreath. Now pale as death, but so resolutely composed as to be almost disap... ...ey were worth looking at, and sighing at the thought of Master Gottfried’s wreath when she met with the asphodel seed-vessels. Once the quiet mule was... ...CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV SNO SNO SNO SNO SNOW W W W W-WREA -WREA -WREA -WREA -WREATHS THS THS THS THS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS T... ...he two lads admired and gazed, caring far less for their own new and noble attire! Friedel was indeed somewhat concerned that the sword by his side wa...

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... Upon the Braes of Kirtle, Was lovely as a Grecian Maid Adorn’d with wreaths of myrtle. Young Adam Bruce beside her lay, And there did they ... ... came on with bud and bell, Among these rocks did I Before you hang my wreath to tell That gentle days were nigh! And in the sultry summer hou... ...n’s gentle hand. And in a later time, ere yet the Boy Had put on Boy’s attire, did Michael love, Albeit of a stern unbending mind, To have the...

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...ng and gay, I would sometimes wonder where he found his cheer- fulness. He had enough to sober him, I thought, in his offi- cial budget. His expenses—... ...talked, we could see, through the landward door, an- other lady of the household at her toilet under the green trees; who presently, when her hair was... ... could not be so done to-day; it could then; death, opium, and depopula- tion had not gone so far; and the people of Hatiheu, I was told, still vied w... ...between the borders. Another step of decay, and he must leave his garden also. Instantly a new occupa- tion was devised, and he sat in the mission cut... ...k. Visiting the sta- tion with one of the Godeffroys, he found his Chinamen trooping to the beach in terror: Timau had driven them out, seized their e... ... some hazard to our skiff, and set down in one corner of the cockpit to his appointed task. He had been hired, as one cunning in the art, to make my o... ...eward. With a little coarser grain of covering earth, a little nearer outcry of the sea, a stronger glare of sunlight on the rude enclosure, and some ... ...began to be adorned and scented with new flowers. A small white blossom is the favourite, sometimes sown singly in a woman’s hair like little stars, n... ...URSDAY, JULY 25.—The street was this day much enlivened by the presence of the men from Little Makin; they average taller than Butaritarians, and bein...

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...uty Old as creation, drinking in a pure 565 Organic pleasure from the silver wreaths Of curling mist, or from the level plain Of waters coloured by im... ...ver been. Nor seldom did I lift our cottage latch Far earlier, ere one smoke wreath had risen From human dwelling, or the vernal thrush 345 Was audibl... ...hange Had waited on some Fairy’s wand, at once Behold me rich in monies, and attired In splendid garb, with hose of silk, and hair Powdered like rimy ... ...ut with more shame, for my habiliments, 75 The transformation wrought by gay attire. Not less delighted did I take my place At our domestic table: and... ...5 Unpeaceful in itself. A single tree With sinuous trunk, boughs exquisitely wreathed, Grew there; an ash which Winter for himself Decked out with pri... ...d: Dejection taken up for pleasure’s sake, And gilded sympathies, the willow wreath, And sober posies of funereal flowers, 555 Gathered among those sol... ...o heard, from those who yet remembered, 150 Tales of the May pole dance, and wreaths that decked Porch, door way, or kirk pillar; and of youths, Each ... ...novelties in speech, Domestic manners, customs, gestures, looks, And all the attire of ordinary life, Attention was engrossed; and, thus amused, 85 I ...

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... Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black attired figure, indefinably grim, although well knit and well proportioned;... ... round upon her finger, now rose, and divesting herself of her out of door attire, began to lay the cloth for supper. “Ah, dear me, dear me, dear me!”... ...used it; — at such signs of his old health and freedom, as the out of door attire that hung idle on the wall; — at those remembrances of other and les... ...ated on his dull old face in the night, and looked out at the little white wreaths eddying round and round him. Doubtless some blind groping of the mo... ...trait, with the beard and ruff, looked down at them from under its verdant wreath of holly, as they looked up at it; and, clear and plain below, as if...

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...nd, looking forward again, beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree. He arose at Goodman Brown’s appr... ... flame, and obscurely discovered shapes and visages of horror on the smoke wreaths above the impi ous assembly. At the same moment the fire on the ro... ...s own dead father beckoned him to ad vance, looking downward from a smoke wreath, while a woman, with dim features of despair, threw out her hand to ... ...ed on high, using whatever means of ascent was offered them. One plant had wreathed itself round a statue of Vertumnus, which was thus quite veiled an... ...ped forth, and, forcing himself through the entangle ment of a shrub that wreathed its tendrils over the hidden entrance, stood beneath his own windo... ...s, and visions of faces horribly grotesque, into which the smoke seemed to wreathe itself, and had heard the awful murmurs, and shrieks, and deep, shu... ...d at that instant with unutter able splendor; the picturesque hues of his attire took a richer depth of coloring; there was a gleam and polish over h... ... on, however, with as much taste as a lovely woman might have shown in her attire, and could therefore have shocked none but a judgment spoiled by art... ...essed in all her move ments as well as in the style of her beauty and the attire that so well harmonized with it. The face with its brilliant depth o...

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...ass’d the tented plain, In T roy to mingle with the hostile train. In this attire secure from searching eyes, Till happily piercing through the dark d... ...h a branch the hero rends; Around his loins the verdant cincture spreads A wreathy foliage and concealing shades. As when a lion in the midnight hours... ...es, of purest white, array The nymph, that added lustre to the day: A tiar wreath’d her head with many a fold; Her waist was circled with a zone of go... ... urn hoar the auburn honours of thy head; Disfigure every limb with coarse attire, And in thy eyes extinguish all the fire; Add all the wants and the ... ...when return’d, the good Ulysses’ son With better hand shall grace with fit attires His guest, and send thee where thy soul desires.” The honest herdsm... ...l good T elemachus accepts his guest With genial gifts, and change of fair attires, And safe conveys thee where thy soul desires.” To him the man of w... ...And vainly to the praise of queen aspire, If, stranger! I permit that mean attire Beneath the feastful bower. A narrow space Confines the circle of ou...

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... adores, And whose bright presence gilds thy Chrysa’s shores. If e’er with wreaths I hung thy sacred fane, 9 Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain;... ...ardan band, All famed in war, and dreadful hand to hand. Be mindful of the wreaths your arms have won, Your great forefathers’ glories, and your own. ... ...ny arms embrown’d, and hairy breast. With his huge sceptre graced, and red attire, Came halting forth the sovereign of the fire: The monarch’s steps t... ...he youths all graceful in the glossy vest: Of those the locks with flowery wreath inroll’d; Of these the sides adorn’d with swords of gold, That glitt... ...r’s fair ornaments, the braids that bound, The net that held them, and the wreath that crown’d, The veil and diadem flew far away (The gift of Venus o... ...igh on their cars in all the pomp of war; Each in refulgent arms his limbs attires, All mount their chariots, combatants and squires. The chariots fir... ...l amidst them lay the hoary sire, (Sad scene of woe!) his face his wrapp’d attire Conceal’d from sight; with frantic hands he spread A shower of ashes...

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...o swear He ne’er saw coronet so fair.’ Then playfully the chaplet wild She wreathed in her dark locks. and smiled. X. Her smile, her speech, with winn... ...or the ever-green Pine! O that the rosebud that graces yon islands Were wreathed in a garland around him to twine! O that some seedling gem, ... ...r kinsman ere he land: ‘Come, loiterer, come! a Douglas thou, And shun to wreathe a victor’s brow?’ Reluctantly and slow, the maid The unwelcome summ... ...from the Douglas broke— As flashes flame through sable smoke, Kindling its wreaths, long, dark, and low, T o one broad blaze of ruddy glow, So the dee... ...et limbs that mocked at time; And there, too, lay the leader’s skull Still wreathed with chaplet, flushed and full, 45 Sir Walter Scott For heath-bel... ...he train. Gravely he greets each city sire, Commends each pageant’s quaint attire, Gives to the dancers thanks aloud, And smiles and nods upon the cro... ...hane and in- terdicted, and most wretchedly ruinous, they themselves being attired in ragged, torn, and most filthy vestments, altogether unfit to be ...

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...keys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red h... ...ent, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shin ing icicles. Its dark brown curls w... ...n honour of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gal lantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash ionable Parks. And no... ...n, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire. The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howl ing of ...

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...rkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum puddings, barrels of oysters, red h... ...ment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shining icicles. Its dark brown curls wer... ...r in honour of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks. And now ... ...n, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire. The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the...

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... were groups of people, some Chapter 1 5 times crowds, and in all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasantsat home or those I saw c... ...e cool pink. Here and there we passed Cszeks and slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed that goitre was pain fully prevalent. By the roads... ...ing brethren with the clammy hands of death, and many a one shuddered at the wreaths of sea mist swept by. At times the mist cleared, and the sea fo... ...e dicinal, but you do not know how. I put him in your window, I make pretty wreath, and hang him round your neck, so you sleep well. Oh, yes! They, l... ...o common flow ers. See, I place them myself in your room. I make myself the wreath that you are to wear. But hush! No telling to others that make so ... ...evil spirit.” “Perhaps I am!” He answered quietly as he began to make the wreath which Lucy was to wear round her neck. We then waited whilst Luc... ... toilet for the night, and when she was in bed he came and himself fixed the wreath of garlic round her neck. The last words he said to her were, “T...

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...n vain their amorous descant join, Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do... ...ees hummed, and chair by winter fire; When market morning came, the neat attire With which, though bent on haste, myself I deck’d; My watchful d... ... Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trail’d its wreathes; And ’tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathe... ... in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watch’d their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black They coil’d and swam; and ... ...sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms Green to the very door; and wreathes of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees, With some ...

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...cked _55 With weeping flowers, or votive cypress wreath, The lone couch of his everlasting sleep:— Gentle, and brave, and ge... ...waste deep; T wilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O’er the fair front and radiant eyes of day; Nigh... ... monstrous sight! For in the air do I behold indeed An Eagle and a Serpent wreathed in fight:— And now, relaxing its impetuous flight, Before the aeri... ...eager head, with beak 70 V olume One And talon unremittingly assailed The wreathed Serpent, who did ever seek _215 Upon ... ... _275 Paused not, its lustre hung: she watching aye The foam-wreaths which the faint tide wove below Upon the spangled sands, groaned he... ...nd all the chief nobility of Rome. And he has bidden me and my pale Mother Attire ourselves in festival array. Poor lady! She expects some happy chang...

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...re bandaged and rebandaged, layer upon layer, until they looked like solid black logs. These weird apparitions had been handsome youths, clad in fashi... ...s the Rhine; The summit of the mountain hearkens In evening sunshine line. The most beautiful Maiden entrances Above wonderfully there, Her beautiful ... ...pas further has placed us on the summit of the Furka; and exactly in front of us, at a hopow of only fifteen miles, this magnificent mountain lifts it... ...y the brightest of Les Étoiles were still shining; the sky was cloudless overhead, though small curling mists lay thousands of feet below us in the va... ... of blooming flowers. Across the front of the house, and up the spreading eaves and along the fanciful railings of the shallow porch, are elaborate ca... ...il. A little later the Matterhorn took to himself the semblance of 233 A Tramp Abroad a volcano; he was stripped naked to his apex—around this circle... ...nd destroys it; she attacks its Hand and destroys her also; she attacks the Fishwife’s Leg and destroys her also; she attacks its Body and consumes hi...

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... SP THIRD SP THIRD SPIRIT IRIT IRIT IRIT IRIT: : : : : Peace! the abyss is wreathed with scorn At your presumption, atom-born! What is Heaven? and wha... ...oil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies— Like an exhalation wreathing _5 To the sound of air ... ... _15 As in the sculptor’s thought; and there The wreaths of stony myrtle, ivy, and pine, Like winter leaves o’ergrown by mou... ...sil and mignonette? Embleming love and health, which never yet In the same wreath might be. Alas, and they are wet! ... ... her maidens soon _100 195 Shelley Changed her attire for the afternoon, And left her at her own request to keep An hour o... ...Works”, 1839, 1st edition. ‘What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest The wreath to mighty poets only due, Even whilst like a forgotten moon thou wan...