I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled... The Week-end Book - Página 59por Vera Meynell - 1925 - 320 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Brown - 1882 - 474 páginas
...whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. "I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Lake a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd."... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 páginas
...young breath. Expecting till thy Saviour comes To dress them, and unswaddle death! THE WORLD. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.... | |
| Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 páginas
...glory peep. " — Beyond the Veil. A little poem on The World is written in the same tone — " I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure...days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd. " And CRASHAW, in his lines to St. Theresa, expresses with equal beauty and feeling, but with... | |
| John Brown - 1861 - 482 páginas
...whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the rinest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure...light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath i. , Time in hours, days, yean, Driv'n by the spheres Ijke a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world... | |
| 1884 - 662 páginas
...Take this opening of a poem called " The World " : "I saw Eternity the other night; Like a great King of pure and endless light; All calm as it was bright...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres In a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled." This... | |
| John Brown - 1885 - 550 páginas
...whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. THE WORLD. ' I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, DriVn by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.' There... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 páginas
...riveted the attention of the author of the ' Horae Subsecivae,' a work of very great interest : I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure...in which the world, And all her train, were hurled ! Sober thoughts like these are at all events good for Christians as they advance in age, and they... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1886 - 568 páginas
...we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna ! come, let's go a Maying. AJ. Herrick ccxciv A VISION I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure...moved ; in which the World And all her train were hurl'd. H. Vaughan CCXCV THE SONG OF DA VID He sang of God, the mighty source Of all things, the stupendous... | |
| 1886 - 552 páginas
...and endless light. Ч All calm, as it was bright; f And round beneath it, time, ÍH hours, days, 1 years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved,...hurled. The doting lover, in his quaintest strain, Did-there complain; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his flights, Wit's sour delights; With gloves... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - 1887 - 416 páginas
...naturally expands itself and seems most at home. Take this opening of a poem called "The World:"— " I saw Eternity the other night ; Like a great Ring of pure...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres In a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." This... | |
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