 Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man ; soon...  Poems - Pagina 229di Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 319 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1839 - 194 pagine
...earth, but, with plumed pinion, to join the angelic band, and wing his flight to the throne of God. " Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." He who has seen the resurrection of the butterfly from the tomb of the caterpillar ; who has seen this... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 pagine
...tomb and slept. WHEN by the green-wood side, at summer eve, \ Poetic visions charm my closing eve;. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. And fairy-scenes, that fancy loves 'to weave, , Shift to wild notes of sweetest minstrelsv ; 'Tis thine... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pagine
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1766. TINTERN ABBEY. FIVE years have past ; five summers, with the length Of... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pagine
...rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thmg that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WILLIAM WORDSWOBTH. 1766. TINTERN A8BE7. FIVE years have past ; five summers, with the length Of... | |
 | 1846 - 872 pagine
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! Yet thou wert once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! ROGERS. 240 A BOY OVERBOARD. ON Nov. 14, we crossed the tropic of Capricorn. It •was an angry,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 360 pagine
...the silent green-wood shade ; These simple joys, that never fail, Shall bind me to my native vale. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous...To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1812. BLUE was the loch, the clouds were gone, Ben-Lomond in... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 pagine
...thou lov'st in fields of light ; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, QuafF fragrant nectar'from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as...To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 181*2. BLUE was the loch, the clouds were gone, Ben-Lomond... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 444 pagine
...fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm — a thing...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." How this change is to affect the human condition in respect to happiness, is a question which points... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pagine
...their cups of gold, There shall thy winga, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstacy. Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. " These lines were written at the request of a respected friend, to accompany Ihe gift of * barrel... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 pagine
...of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an eiening-sky, Expand and shut with silent eesta, y ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the bla7u of day ! WRITTEN IN WF.STMINSTER ABBEY. OCTf (BER 10, 1806.' WHGE'ER thou ail, approach, and,... | |
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