 Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west To golden climes and islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there...  The Quarterly Review - Page 206edited by - 1813Full view - About this book
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...the desert ! who delight to dwell Mid kneeling camels round the sacred well. The sails were furl'd : with many a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening anthem rose, Hose to the Virgin. 'Twas the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer-seas display A path of glory,... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...they were led to suspect that the object of their voyage was near at hand. " The sails were furPd, with many a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening...suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening iu the west, To golden climes and islands of the blest, And human voices in the silent air, Went o'er... | |
 | 1813 - 566 pages
...they were led to suspect that the object of their voyage was near at hand. u The sails were fiirl'd, with many a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening...Rose to the virgin — 'Twas the hour of day When settinsr suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west, To golden climes and islands... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...led to suspect that the object of their voyage was near at hand. ' The sails were furl'd, with marly a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening anthem rose : Rose to the Virgin—Twas the hour of day A path of glory opening in the west, To golden climes and islands of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...sacred well. The sails were furled : with many a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening-anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin.* 'Twas the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer-seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes, and islands of the blest... | |
 | Emily Taylor - Didactic fiction - 1820 - 286 pages
...they besought Columbus to forgive them for all their illbehaviour ; and the very people who had Kose to the virgin. 'Twas the hour of day When setting...climes, and islands of the blest, And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there! Chosen of men! 'twas thine, at noon... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...I'd: with many a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening anthem rosst Rose to the Virgin. 'Twos the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer -seas...climes, and islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there I Chosen of Men! 'twas thine , at... | |
 | Emily Taylor - Didactic fiction - 1821 - 338 pages
...a beautiful passage in Mr. Rogers' Poem on the " Voyage of Columbus." The tails were furl'd : witb many a melting close Solemn and slow the evening anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin.3 'Twas the hour of day When setting funs o'er summer seas display A ]iath of glory, opening... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...sacred well. The sails were furled : with many a melting close, Solemn and slow the evening-anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin. 'Twas the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer-seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes, and islands of the blest... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...T was ihe hour of day, When setting suns o'er «mimer-seas display A path of glory, opening in ilie west To golden climes, and islands of the blest ; And human voices, on the *denl air, Went o'er the waves in мшцн of gladness there! (iboM-n of Men ! (48) t* was thine,... | |
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