 neath a curtain of translucent dew. Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.  Tinsley's Magazine - Page 2671878Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...starlight, we lose our consciousness of the terrestrial in the superber consciousness of the universal. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew>... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...prying fingers of detective years Shall drag thy secret out into the light. BLANCO WHITE. TO NIGHT. MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heart! thy name; Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue?... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...the finest and most grandly conceived in our language: — " Mysterions Night! when our first parents knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name,...lovely frame—- This glorious canopy of light and blue J Yet 'ueath a cnrreni of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...flapped heavily before me, and his whitened hair streamed over his shoulders like a meteor. MYSTEHioirs Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report...frame, This glorious canopy of Light and blue ? Yet 'ueath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rnys of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the... | |
 | Insanity (Law) - 1896 - 676 pages
...White has well portrayed this in his lines: " Mysterious iiight; when our first parent knew Thee by report divine and heard thy name Did he not tremble...This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1845 - 880 pages
...correspondence. The following noble Sonnet will vindicate his title to the possession of poetic genius : " Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee,...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue r Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 822 pages
...reveal far more than it hides ? Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee from Divine report, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This^glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtam of translucent dew Bathed in the rays... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...For their prey; Men of thought, and men of action, CLEAR THE WAT ! SONNET. BY JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee...lovely Frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ? fet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bafhed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 412 pages
...strangers, are exceedingly kind and attentive to all visitors. Jan. 181'.. POETRY. NIGHT. BT i. B. WHITX. Mysterious Night! when our first Parent knew Thee,...lovely Frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ! ' et, 'neath a curtain of translucent de\v. Bathed in the rays of the great setting Flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Baptists - 1846 - 880 pages
...earnestly for the substantial of the Christian faith. SEMILAICUS. NIGHT. BY BET. BLANCO WHITE. MYSTEBIOCS night! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,... | |
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