 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pages
...sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the flower of the Amra just op'd by a bee;| And precious their tears as that rain from the sky,{ Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. * Teflis is celebrated for its natural warm bath. v. Jlaukel f " The Indian Syrinda or guitar."—Symes.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the flower of the Amra just oped by a bee ;* And precious their tears as that rain from the sky, " Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. Oh ! think what the kiss and the smile must be worth, When the sigh and the tear are so perfect in... | |
 | 1834 - 480 pages
...sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the flowers of the amra just oped by a bee. And precious their tears as that rain from the sky Which turns into pearls as it falls to the sea. Oh! think what the kiss and smile must be worth, When the sigh and the tear are so perfect... | |
 | 1830 - 596 pages
...that I have by no means exhausted my subject. To proceed. Pearls are not, as poets have feigned, " rain from the sky, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea," but they are the morbid secretions of an oyster. Several species of bivalved shellfish produce them,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 438 pages
...marble—' Jf there be a paradise upon earth, it is this, it is this.'"—Franhlin. And precious their tears as that rain from the sky*, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. Oh ! think what the kiss and the smile must be worth When the sigh and the tear are so perfect in bliss,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 440 pages
...while the murmuring bees pursue their voluptuous toil." — Song ofJayadeva. And precious their tears as that rain from the sky*, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. Oh ! think what the kiss and the smile must be worth When the sigh and the tear are so perfect in bliss,... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...sighing, and fragrant their sSgh As the flow'r of the Amra just oped by a bee ;§ And precious their tears as that rain from the sky,|| Which turns into pearls as it fulls in the sea. Oh ! think what the kiss and the smile must be wortli When the figh and the tear... | |
 | George Johnston - 1850 - 634 pages
...observation, there early originated a fancy that pearls were produced on St. John's eve by drops of " rain from the sky, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea," — or from dew-drops congealed and petrified in the oyster's shell. Boethius thus states the theory... | |
 | Charles Edwards - 1855 - 272 pages
...their womb is to all people." In the East, the belief is equally common that these precious gems are " rain from the sky, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea." The ancient idea that pearls are generated of the dews of heaven, is pretty conclusively met by Cardanus,*... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1861 - 778 pages
...sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the flow'r of the Amra just oped by a bee ;* And precious their tears as that rain from the sky," Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. Oh ! think what the kiss and tho smile must be worth When the sigh and the tear are so perfect in bliss,... | |
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Here maidens are sighing, and fragrant their sigh As the flower of the Amra just oped by a bee ; And precious their tears as that rain from the sky, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. 
