 Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting...  Littell's Living Age - Página 2881854Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 496 páginas
...pronounced " the most grandly conceived in the English language." The words are these : — "Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting name, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1856 - 80 páginas
...when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and beard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue...Hesperus, with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, 0 Sun ?... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - 1856 - 254 páginas
...his handiwork. How beautiful the poetic allusion to the revealing power of night I Mysterious Night I when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine,...glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain nf translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...In everything we are sprung Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. BIANCO WHITE. Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, — Tliis glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'iicath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1856 - 286 páginas
...grandly-conceived in our language." 2 Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee, from repost Divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? 3 Yet, 'neath a current of fc-anslucent dew, Bathed in the rays of The great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 1856 - 430 páginas
...will thank us for a worthy addition to your acquaintance ; it runs as follows:— Mysterious night 1 when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble lor his lonely frame, — This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'nenth a curtain of translucent... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1856 - 468 páginas
...sensuous richness of true poetry. It is a sublime composition. SONNET ON NIGHT AND DEATH. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Bid he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain... | |
 | 1857 - 372 páginas
...redeemed from sin ! The city gates unfold, — enter, O enter in ! TO NIGHT. . J. BLANCO WHITE. MYSTERIOUS Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O sun ?... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 páginas
...educated in Spain, but wrote English very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIUHT. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report...Hesperus with the host of Heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun !... | |
 | Mercy Grogan - 1857 - 330 páginas
...night. I will repeat it to you," and in deep thrilling tones he recited it to Esme. " ' Mysterious Night ! When our first parent knew Thee from report...Hesperus with the host of Heaven came, And, lo ! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun,... | |
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