 | 1870 - 462 Seiten
...rolls, and unsecure, 15 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. ly steed ; He bared his blade of the bent-grass blue ; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And Hower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green, And,... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 Seiten
...Trembling, lest it grow impure ; Till the warm sun pitty its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain of eternal day 1 Appeared originally in the folio of 1681 (pp. 4-5). The Latin original precedes this. O. \ (Could... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 Seiten
....-^ Of the clear fountain of eternal day 20 ' (Could it within the human flow'r be seen), Rememb'ring still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green ; And, recolleeting its own light, Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express 25 The greater heaven... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 Seiten
...; Restless it rolls, and unsecure, aPOEMS OF NATURE. 325 -a And to the skies exhales it back again. om his hand, And, backwards wiiy it turns away ; So the world excluding round, Yet receiving in the day. Dark beneath, but bright... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 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...circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in a heaven lesa. In how coy a figure wound, Every way it turns away, So the world excluding round, Yet receiving... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...divided from the sphere. Till the warm sun pities Its pain, And to the skies exhales it buck again. So the soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain of eternal day, Could it within the human flower he seen, Remembering still ihs former height, Shuns the sweet leaves, and blossoms green, And, recolleeting... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 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, Could it within the human flower bo seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green, And, recollecting... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 Seiten
...fogs too,' said the Brahmin, with a slight smile. ' Or, if you like, to Andrew Marvell's idea of— The soul, that drop, that ray, Of the clear fountain of eternal day. ' Or to Spenser's idea of— The soule, the which derived was, At first, out of that great immortal... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 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 Pmvcr of Music, written in 1697, for the festival of St. Cecilia's... | |
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So the soul, that drop, that ray Of the clear fountain of eternal day, Could it within the human flower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green; And, recollecting its own light, Does, in its pure and circling... 
