| Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 páginas
...and educated in Spain, but wrote English very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIGHT. Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon ! I'ERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. NIGHT. MYSTEP.IOUS d kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour Î Yet, 'neatli a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 páginas
...glory, heightening to the starry blue Of all embosoming eternity. VII. NIGHT AND DEATH.— WHITE.' MYSTERIOUS night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neafh a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting name, Hesperus,3 wifli... | |
| Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 páginas
...ill-adventured youth ; Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain, And never wake to feel the day's disdain. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Memory of the Dead. Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Huthed in the rays of the great setting... | |
| Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - 1874 - 732 páginas
...from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| Public school series - 1874 - 408 páginas
...having been his vernacular. This sonnet was pronounced by Wordsworth the finest in English poetry. MYSTERIOUS Night ! When our first Parent knew Thee,...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for thy lovely frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,... | |
| John S. Stuart-Glennie - 1875 - 546 páginas
...White which speaks of the starry splendours to which our eyes are blinded by the light of day : — ' Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 páginas
...rejoice for the dead who have died in the Lord. JO8EPH BLANCO WHITE. [1775-1841.1 NIGHT AND DEATH. MYSTERIOUs night ! when our first parent knew Thee...tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of lifjht and blue ! Vet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 264 páginas
...indicate, I cannot close better than by quoting Blanco White's sonnet on " Night and Death : "— " Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| 1876 - 508 páginas
...Night — Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon ! PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Night and Death. MYSTERIOUS Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host... | |
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