Hived Hill, that teem’st with yellow wealth untold,
The rich Australia of translucent gold,
Pregnant with many a vegetable mine,
And secret cell of softest saccharine! —
Hail, dulcet ore, distill’d from mellowest bowers, —
Of fragrant taste, — the syrupy bloom of flowers! —
The floral richness of engolden’d dells, —
The marrow of the painted Asphodels!
1873, William Henry Karslake, The theory of prayer, page 87:
Blessings on his family and household, blessings on his friends and relations, blessings showered abundantly on himself, engolden the life of the man of prayer.
1880, Arthur Mursell, Addresses to the working people of Birmingham, page 198:
[…] it could only be because the devil has so effectually sustained his claim upon them that no sunshine could engolden them, and no heaven could hold them.
1883, Charles Harpur, Early Summer, verse 1:
‛TIS the early Summer season, when the skies are clear and blue, —
When wide warm fields are glad with corn as green as ever grew,
And upland growths of wattles engolden all the view.
1897, Pearee Mohun Choudry, The Present Paradise, page 229:
Science and industry are the Philosopher’s stones which engolden one’s circumstances; but they cannot engolden one’s self.
1907, Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain: And Other Poems, page 7:
Yet I shall know her as she was of old,
Fashioned of moonlight and Ægean foam;
Some visionary gleam, some glory strange
Shall day by day engolden her lost face;
The slow attrition of the years shall wear
No luring charm away, and she shall live
A lonely star, a gust of music sweet,
A voice upon the Deep, a mystery!
a.1916, Brookes More, The Beggar’s Vision, verses 1–2:
The blessed angel, Israfil,
On Alicon’s engolden’d hill,
Heard by the saints when night is still — [¶]
[¶] Ten thousand, thousand joyous notes,
Sweet as when through the forest floats
The silvery joys of feathered throats.
1930, Victor Wallace Germains, The Kitchener Armies: The Story of a National Achievement, page 301:
Chivalry will take it to her bosom, Romance will lend to it her soft engoldenment, History will enmesh it with her fairy-like enchantment.
