 Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.  Idalia, by 'Ouida'. - Page 77by Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...from the palm-trees, — The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living water — The haunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion Is couched in his lair : And the meal — the rich dates — yellowed over With gold dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the...sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal — the rich dates — yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust's-flesh steeped... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 pages
...rock up to rock, — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the...sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal— the rich dates— yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust's-flesh steeped in... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water,— the hunt of the...sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal — the rich dates— yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust's-flesh steeped... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the...sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal — the rich dates yellowed over with. gold dust divine, And the locust's-flesh steeped in... | |
 | 478 pages
...boughs from the palm-trees, The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living water. The haunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion Is couched in his lair. And the meat, the rich dates yellowed over With golddust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped in the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...from the palm-trees, — The cool silver shock Of a plunge in the pool's living water — The haunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion Is couched in his lair : And the meal — the rich dates — yellowed over With gold dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the...sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. How good is man's life, the mere living ! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses,... | |
 | 1865 - 582 pages
...wild joys of living, the leaping from rock to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the lir-tree, the cool river shock Of a plunge in a pool's living...water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showiug the lion is couched in his lair ! And h» knew that this glory of life was dead in him for... | |
 | 1867 - 590 pages
...rock up to rock, — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the...sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair. And the meal — the rich dates yellowed over with gold-dust divine, And the locust's flesh steeped in... | |
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