The Botanic Garden Part 2 Containing The Loves Of The Plants A

Descend, ye hovering Sylphs! aerial Quires, And sweep with little hands your silver lyres; With fairy footsteps print your grassy rings, Ye Gnomes! accordant to the tinkling str...

And now the Goddess founds her silver shell, And shakes with deeper tones the inchanted dell; Pale, round her grassy throne, bedew'd with tears, Flit the thin forms of Sorrows,...

Impetuous steams in spiral colums rise Through rifted rocks, impatient for the skies; Or o'er bright seas of bubbling lavas blow, 180 As heave and toss the billowy fires below;...

Again the Goddess strikes the golden lyre, And tunes to wilder notes the warbling wire; With soft suspended step Attention moves, And Silence hovers o'er the listening groves; 5...

Now the broad Sun his golden orb unshrouds, Flames in the west, and paints the parted clouds; O'er heaven's wide arch refracted lustres flow, And bend in air the many-colour'd b...

The general design of the following sheets is to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science, and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery...

Maid of night Fairies--Electric lady--Shadrec, Meshec, and Abednego, in the fiery furnace--Shepherdesses--Song to Echo--Kingdom of China--Lady and distaff--Cupid spinning--Lady...

Witch and imps in a church--Inspired Priestess--Fusseli's night-mare--Cave of Thor and subterranean Naïads--Medea and her children--Palmira weeping Group of wild creatures drink...

Air-balloon of Mongolfier--Arts of weaving and spinning--Arkwright's cotton mills--Invention of letters, figures and crotchets--Mrs. Delany's paper-garden--Mechanism of a watch,...

Group of insects--Tender husband--Self-admirer--Rival lovers--Coquet --Platonic wife--Monster-husband--Rural happiness--Clandestine marriage --Sympathetic lovers--Ninon d'Enclos...