 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, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 722 pages
...rest where the wild wave Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave. JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE* TO NIGHT. 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... | |
 | English fiction - 1878 - 782 pages
...these are prosaic matters, and perhaps they are of little importance in a poem : ' NIGHT AND DEATH. 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...1—8) FF; GOA; HelP; NAAL-1; NOBA; NOEC; TAP; TTY; WPE JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841) To Night 1 elves I . (1. 1—4) J Why do we then shun death with anxious strife? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not... | |
 | Rachel R. Baum - Social Science - 1999 - 188 pages
...bitter foam on my face And the sea-mist coiled like silk about your bones. -Kay Boyle (1903- ) To Night 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... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 302 pages
...sincere friend, Joseph Blanco White Mysterious night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...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... | |
 | Michael Counsell - Religion - 2001 - 218 pages
...Shall death's fair night discover The fields of everlasting life. Paulus Gerhardt To Night and Death 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... | |
 | Mary Boykin Chesnut - Fiction - 2002 - 268 pages
...night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble lor 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... | |
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