balmy

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Possess, as I possessed a season, The countries I resign, Where over elmy plains the highway Would mount the hills and shine, And full of shade the pillared forest Would murmur and be mine.

From Last Poems by A. E. Housman by Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

The elmy dale which gives such agreeable variety to the park of Trinity College, and which renders so charming the views from the Provost's Lodge, is irrigated by it.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

They pass along the front of the old palace that stands blinking its sleepy windows across elmy vistas, or into tranquil courts where sentries go pacing.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss

Give leave your flocks to range, Let us the while be playing; Within the elmy grange, Your flocks will not be straying.

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir