"Sweet balm" Quotes from Famous Books
... die.—Who has not heard of Calypso? her grove crowned with alders and poplars? her grotto, against which the luxuriant vine laid forth his purple grapes? her ever new delights, crystal fountains, running brooks, meadows flowering with sweet balm-gentle and with violet: blue violets which like veins enameled the smooth breasts of each fragrant mead! It were useless to describe over again what has been so well told already: or to relate those soft ... — Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb |