 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1907 - 646 pagina’s
...analysed but must simply be felt; or ' The World,' with its magnificent symbol in the opening lines : 1 1 saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd.' Mysticism is the most salient feature of Wordsworth's... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 456 pagina’s
...be the sun, Thou'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pagina’s
...Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne, And minds the covenant betwixt all and one. THE WORLD. I SAW eternity the other night, Like a great ring...shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him his lute, his fancy,... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 318 pagina’s
...judge I did not lore tlice. John Cap. 14. ver. 15. If ye love me, keep my Commandments, The World. Saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and cmllefs light. All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 316 pagina’s
...and judge I did not love thee. John Cap. 14. ver. 15. If ye love me, keep my Commandments, The World. Saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endlefs light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pagina’s
...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 endless light, All calm as it mas bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, yearn, Driv'n by the spheres Like u i'ast shadow... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pagina’s
...cares without thee ; let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. THE WORLD. VAUGHAN. And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,...shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doating lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him his lute, his fancy,... | |
 | John Holland - 1856 - 386 pagina’s
...MEMOIRS OF JAMES MONTGOMERY. turn for an example to ' The World,' in Cattermole's Selections : — ' I saw Eternity, the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright!' There is nothing in poetry more perfect in its kind than this. I feel, when I read it, as though I... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1858 - 326 pagina’s
...judge I did not love thee. John, cap. 14. ver. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandments. The World. SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endlefs light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n... | |
 | T. NELSON - 1858 - 508 pagina’s
...cares without thee; let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. THE WOULD. VAUGHAfT. d round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, :ea vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. 3 douting lover in his quaintest... | |
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A VISION 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, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved; in which the World And all her train... 
