 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
 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 páginas
...first a flight divine, And nursed thy infant years with many a strain from Heaven ! TO THE BUTTERFLY. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! AN EPITAPH ON A ROBIN-REDBREAST.34 TREAD lightly here, for here, 't is said, When piping winds are... | |
 | James Duncan - 1860 - 438 páginas
...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 thou...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day 1 ROGERS. THE primary division, or Order, of the Class of Insects, to the illustration of which the... | |
 | James Samuelson - 1860 - 208 páginas
...gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy. 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 ! " The animals called Insecta, or insects, then, are characterized by the possession of a horny external... | |
 | Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 páginas
...white-coloured species may be called " the wing'd lily -flower of entomology ! " Yet, the gay butterfly " Was once a worm — a thing that crept, On the bare earth...of clay, To burst — a seraph in the blaze of day !" In another insect, eyes have been counted to the prodigious number of 25,000 ! If these statistics... | |
 | 1861 - 876 páginas
...silent ecstaey: Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a home and slept. And such is man; .soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." "Italy" consists of a series of short poems in blank verge, illustrative of Italian scenes and events,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold : There shall thy wings, rich &s an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy : Yet wert thou...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. Jtixjers. CALAMITIES. CANDLELIGHT. 0. CALAMITIES— how to be Borne. "Пя only from the belief of... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...a.ges. mojiy a nymph appeared. Appeared and vanished, bearing on her head Her earthen piLcher . p . 35Z. Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! Yet wert thou...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. P^ESTUM. (" From Italy.") THEY stand between the mountains and the sea; Awful memorials, but of whom... | |
 | Charles Smith Cheltnam - 1863 - 176 páginas
...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 ! " THS RED ADMIRAL. THE SILVER-SPOTTED FRITILLARY. CHAPTEE VII. I PICK UP A NUT WITH A HOLE IN IT—BOB'S... | |
 | Months - 1864 - 262 páginas
...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 ! HYMN FOR JUNE. "7 HYMN FOR JUNE. : He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."— I John... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 páginas
...unfold, quaff fragrant neclar 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! S. ROGERS O THE SONS OF HOLLAND METHINKS her patient sons before me stand, where the broad ocean leans... | |
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