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 - Página 229por Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 319 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...unfold, QuafF fragrant nectar from their cupj of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! Yet wert thou...from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze ot day. We might cull many pearls of thought from this poet, but we have only space for the following... | |
| Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 páginas
...cups of gold. There, shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with 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." 1. A celestial spirit. . 2. A city of China. 3. The edict of an Emperor. 4. A fashionable small ship.... | |
| James Cundall - 1866 - 554 páginas
...needs ; the chrysalis as the rest in death; the soaring winged insect as the rising from the tomb — " Once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." — I MAY 18iH. THE CELANDINE. — (Ghelidonium mnjus.) A VERY curious and unaccountable notion prevailed... | |
| 1867 - 432 páginas
...a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth ; then wrought a tomb and slept : And such is man ; so from his cell of clay • To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! " EJS CLIFFORD. INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS. BORLASE says he saw a lobster attack an oyster, who persisted... | |
| Hiram Mattison - 1866 - 572 páginas
...thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man — soon from this cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. Speaking of this wonderful transformation, an able writer says: — * "It seems like a resurrection... | |
| 1868 - 738 páginas
...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. ' jO insect conveys to us so happy an idea of innocent pleasure and idle enjoyment as does the moth... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 páginas
...cups of gold : There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy I Yet wert thou once a worm — a thing that crept On...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! Wonderful indeed are the transformations which many insects must undergo ere they arrive at maturity.... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 páginas
...of gold ; There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ; Tct wert thou once a worm — a thing that crept On the...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. Rogers. XII. MARY AT THE SEPULCHRE. "TpROM the gray mountains round _1J The mists of dawn unwreathed,... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 páginas
...gold ; There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky," Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ; Yet wcrt thou once a worm — a thing that crept On the bare...his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of clay. Rogers. XII. MART AT THE SEPULCHRE. he gray mountains round JJ The mists of dawn unwreathed,... | |
| Gems - 1868 - 194 páginas
...sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstaoy ! Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the haso earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. ROGERS. Hamming-Bird Hawk-Moth has been for several years past a subject of much interest to lovers... | |
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