 | Moses Severance - 1840 - 314 pagina’s
...view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue ! Thus with delight we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each...In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world : Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye nor list'ning... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1840 - 376 pagina’s
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been,...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend,... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pagina’s
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity 1 Can Wisdom lend,... | |
 | 1840 - 652 pagina’s
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus from afar each dim discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been...can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there. With thee, sweet hope, resides the heavenly light, That pours remotest rapture on the sight. Thine... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pagina’s
...wretched he forsakes; Swift on his downy pinion flies from wo, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye nor listening... | |
 | James Grant - 1841 - 330 pagina’s
...we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems, than all the past hath...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. The " Pleasures of Hope" concludes with the following lines:— Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres... | |
 | 1841 - 200 pagina’s
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. ■ What potent spirit guides the raptured eye To pierce the shades of dim fiitaiiVj ^ . Can Wisdom... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 838 pagina’s
...distress ; and night, Even in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness how profound ! lior eye, nor listening... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - 448 pagina’s
...through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners grey. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.— Young. Mason. In these instances, it may be presumed that the personification,... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pagina’s
...my distress; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening... | |
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joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd scene, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,... 
