 Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4671863Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 320 pages
...case I have not seen them before, I shall do as I would be done by, and lay it before the reader : " Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus, with the host... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...I have not seen them before, I shall do as I would be done by, and lay it before the reader : — " Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...lovely frame, — This glorious canopy of light and hlue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremhle for this lovely frame, — This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus, with the host... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers (Secondary) - 1851 - 288 pages
...produced a sonnet which the poet pronounces " the finest and most grandly-conceived in our language." 2 Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? 3 Yet, 'neath a current of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...and educated in Spain, but wrote English very imperfectly until he was turned of thirty. TO NIGHT. Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with... | |
 | James Flint - Sermons, American - 1852 - 324 pages
...brighter days and unimagined happiness, I subjoin a well-known sonnet of the late Joseph Blanco White. " Mysterious night! when our first parent knew Thee...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'Heath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the... | |
 | William Mountford - Death - 1852 - 542 pages
...shall die, but only to know the more blessedly that God is the Father of us spirits. CHAPTER XIII. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 7 Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting name, Hesperus... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1852 - 456 pages
...impatient for the sky, and wrestle* with the earthly worm that folds us in. . " Mysterious Night ! when onr first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet ' neath a curtain of translucent dew, • Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...let me use the language of a great mind : * "Mysterious Night.! when oar first parent knew Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'ueath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...let me use the language of a great mind : * "Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble...this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and bine ! Yet 'neath a enrtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
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