 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...When, o'er the vale of B ALB EC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems : And, near... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 560 pages
...witherWhen, o'er the vale of Balbeek winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, Th'- beautiful blue damsel flies^T) That fluti• r'tl round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 418 pages
...When, o'er the vale of BALBEC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue .damsel-flies,' That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems : — And,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1817 - 374 pages
...When, o'er the vale of BALBEC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue-damsel flies,* That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems: And,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...When, o'er the vale of BALBEC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel- flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems : And, near... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...When, o'er the vale of BALBEC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, * That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems: — And,... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...When o'er the vale of BALBEC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies* That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems : — And,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...AVhen/oi'er the vale of BALBEC winging, Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among lhe rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing with eager hands and eyee, The beautiful blue damsel flies,* That flutter'd round the jasmine Sterae, Like winged flowers... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 410 pages
...Even In the rich West begun to wither ; — When, o'er the vale of BALBEC winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild flowers singing,...Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, 7 That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems : — And,... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...When, o'er the vale of BALBEC winging, Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel flies, That (lutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems ; — And,... | |
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mid the roses lay, She saw a wearied man dismount From his hot steed, and on the brink Of a small imaret's rustic fount Impatient fling him down to drink. 
