 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 páginas
...obscure the t-ky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's friry frost-w.irk melts away I l|' Bat can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich rejics of a welT-epent honr ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Ponr rpnnd her path... | |
 | 1881 - 602 páginas
...but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky. If but a beam of tober reason play, So Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of...rest Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, But fly not half so swift away ; Their souls are ever... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent honr? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light,... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the nch relics of a well-spent hour I These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! [From The Pleasures of Memory.] THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE. THE school's lone porch, with reverend mosses... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of...rest Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest ! FROM 'HUMAN LIFE.' When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of...rest Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest ! FROM ' HUMAN LIFE.' When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone,... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 338 páginas
...trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light; 70 And gild thoae pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! HUMAN LIFE. THE lark has sung his carol in the sky; ROGERS. The bees have humm'd their noon-tide harmony.... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of...rest Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest!" This poem on Italy was in blank verse, with now and then a fragment in prose, and is a sort of poetical... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 páginas
...a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of...rest Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest I FROM 'HUMAN LIFE.' When by a good man's grave I muse alone, Methinks an Angel sits upon the stone,... | |
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Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour?... 
