TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and... The Edinburgh Annual Register - Seite 3711823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 Seiten
...philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...Philosophy To teach me what thou art ; — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
| 1847 - 396 Seiten
...thinking it true, that he alludes to it in a beautiful poem of his, caljed the " Rainbow." He says — . " Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow !" You may have observed, Mary, that the rainbow is... | |
| 1846 - 436 Seiten
...what thou art. 242 TO THE RAINBOW. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, — A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and...Optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
| 1846 - 730 Seiten
...philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 Seiten
...childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven. 3. Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold, Hid in thy radiant bow ? 4. When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and...teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow 1 When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
| Garland - 1847 - 104 Seiten
...childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. all that optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? Where Science from creation's face Enchfrhtment's... | |
| Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 Seiten
...the Subject or Object of an Auxiliary Sentence, it should be placed next its Antecedent. EXAMPLEs. " Can all THAT optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so." •' The grave, THAT never spoke before Hath found, at length, a tongue to chide." Hom.—To this rule... | |
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