| Songs - 1856 - 712 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain...and circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in an heaven less. In how coy a figure wound, Every way it turns away ! To the world excluding round,... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray Of the clear fountain...and circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in an heaven less. 2SO Such did the manna's sacred dew distil, White and entire, although congeal'd and... | |
| Charlotte Maria Tucker - 1860 - 364 Seiten
...so long divided from the sphere t Restless it rolls, and Insecure, Trembling lest it grow impure I So the soul— that drop, that ray Of the clear fountain of eternal day,— Could It within the human Jlower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green, And... | |
| W. K. - 1865 - 260 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain...and circling thoughts, express The greater Heaven in an heaven less. In how coy a figure wound, Every way it turns away ! To the world excluding round,... | |
| W. K. - 1865 - 238 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain...and circling thoughts, express The greater Heaven in an heaven less. In how coy a figure wound, Every way it turns away ! To the world excluding round,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 210 Seiten
...impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. MORNING SIGHTS. 147 So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain...eternal day, Could it within the human flower be seen, Kemembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green ; And, recollecting... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 Seiten
...trembling lest it grow impure, Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul — that drop, that ray Of the clear fountain...thoughts express The greater heaven in a heaven less. DRYDEN'S magnificent Ode, On the Power of Music, written in 1697, for the festival of St. Cecilia's... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain of eternal day, 20 Could it within the human flower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves,... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain...sweet leaves, and blossoms green, And, recollecting iti own light, Docs, in its pure ami circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in a heaven less.... | |
| 1870 - 464 Seiten
...it within the human flower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves, the blossoms green ; And, recollecting its own light, Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express 25 The greater heaven in a heaven less. In how coy a figure wound, Every way it turns away : So the... | |
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