 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pagina’s
...the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | 1820 - 742 pagina’s
...transported into another region of the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at hi< feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc." It is a singular... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 414 pagina’s
...Gates of Heav'n for thee." x Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pagina’s
...his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON;...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flower* Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
 | 1818 - 798 pagina’s
...the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON...in a vale of flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pagina’s
...Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pagina’s
...Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | 1872 - 348 pagina’s
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its precipitous... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pagina’s
...not— holier far " Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the gates of Heav'n for thee." Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pagina’s
...fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid waters strayed And mountain-cedars stretched... | |
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Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at... 
