girdled

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Girdled with gold my little lady’s bower Stands at the portals of a world in flower, And down her ways the changing blossoms mark How the Spring grows each day from dawn to dark.

From All Round the Year by Bellingham-Smith, Hugh

There is a little garden-close, Girdled by golden apple trees, That through the long sweet summer hours Is haunted by the hum of bees.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

The white bones, which my body's wreck outlast, Girdled in flowing black they will upbear, Sprinkle with rare, old wine, and gently cast In bath of snowy milk, with pious care.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.

Macroglossum assimile 64 Macroglossum assimile 64 Conus Augur 65 Girdled Cone 65 Mitra lugubris 66 White-banded Mitre 66 ferruginea ib.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

Only the tomb by Mount Zion, Hewn for the Lord, do we hold Dearer than his in thy prairies, Girdled with harvests of gold!

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)