 | Adrian Hardy Haworth - Lepidoptera - 1803 - 430 pages
...glittering wings, and wantons in his rays : In life exulting, o'er the meadows flies, Sips from each How'r, and breathes the vernal skies. " Its splendid plumes,...love directs, a libertine it roves, And courts the fair опеэ thro' the verdant groves. " How glorious now ! how chang'd since yesterday Г When on... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...glittering wings, and wantons in his rays; In life exulting, o'er the meadow flies, Sips from each flower, and breathes the vernal skies. Its splendid plumes,...love directs, a libertine it roves, And courts the fair ones through the verdantgroves. How glorious now ! how changed since yesterday, When on the ground... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...glittering wings, and wantons in his rays ; In life exulting, o'er the meadow flies, Sips from each flower, and breathes the vernal skies. Its splendid plumes,...love directs, a libertine it roves, And courts the fair ones through the verdant groves. How glorious now ! how chang'd since yesterday, When on the ground... | |
 | Michael A. Salmon, Peter Marren, Basil Harley - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 450 pages
...at nature's glories. See, to the Sun the Butterfly displays His glistering wings and wantons in his Rays: In Life exulting, o'er the Meadow flies, Sips from each Flow'r, and breathes the vernal Skies. His splendid Plumes, in graceful order show The various glories of the painted Bow. Where Love directs,... | |
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Sips from each flower, and breathes the vernal skies. Its splendid plumes, in graceful order, show The various glories of the painted bow ; Where love directs, a libertine it roves, And courts the fair ones through the verdant groves. 