 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...Wise are his precepts, prayer, and praise, And counsel to his child. His muse, bright angel of his jreakp, It is the Star of Bethlehem. Once on the raging...— and rudely blowed The wind that tossed my found sang of God — the mighty source Of all things — the stupendous force On which all strength depends... | |
 | John William Lester - 1847 - 376 Seiten
...lute. But to the poet: speaking of the melodious harper, he says: — His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...Blest light still gaining on the gloom, The more than Michael of his bloom, The Abishag of his age. He sang of God, the mighty source Of all things, the... | |
 | 1882 - 492 Seiten
...He then builds a stanza on each of these epithets, and shows how David's muse, " Bright angel of his verse Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce, For all the pangs that rage." The different groundworks of David's song are enumerated. " He sung of GOD — the mighty source Of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 Seiten
...caught, Unrivalled royalty of thought, O'er meaner thoughts supreme. His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...than Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age. He sang of God, the mighty source Of all things — that stupendous force On which all strength depends... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 Seiten
...Wise are his precepts, prayer, and praise, And counsel to his child. 17 His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...than- Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age. 18 He sang of God—the mighty source Of all things—the stupendous force On which all strength depends;... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 Seiten
...in ephod clad, His pomp, his piety was glad, Majestic was his joy. " His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...Blest light, still gaining on the gloom The more than Michel of his bloom The Abishag of his age. " He sang of God, the mighty source Of all things — the... | |
 | Thomas Gregory Smart - 1868 - 218 Seiten
...Streatlam Castle, and Gibside, Durham. (See Fage 99. ) "DAVID." (Sianzaiy.) " His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...than Michal of his bloom ; The Abishag of his age." (Smart' s poems pub. by Dryden Leach, 1765.) "There are portions of the " Song to David," which a Milton,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 356 Seiten
...following in praise of the sweet singer, holy psalmist, skilled harper, whose " Muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...than Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age. " Blest was the tenderness he felt, When to his graceful harp he knelt, And did for audience call ;... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 Seiten
...following in praise of the sweet singer, holy psalmist, skilled harper, whose " Muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce,...than Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age. " Blest was the tenderness he felt, When to his graceful harp he knelt, And did for audience call ;... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 Seiten
...Wise are his precepts, prayer, and praise, And counsel to his child. His muse, bright angel of his ^ M ' g 4W^( l G Ho sang of God — the mighty source Of all things — the stupendous force On which all strength depends... | |
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His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce, For all the pangs that rage; Blest light, still gaining on the gloom, The more than Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age. 
