 That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's...  New Outlook - Page 3161907Full view - About this book
 | English periodicals - 1861 - 578 pages
...burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my Bailing rack, When the morning-star shines dead. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...the depth of Heaven above, With wings folded I rest, on mine airy nestj As still as a brooding dove. Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the...tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...As still as a brooding dove. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the nioon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the...tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...the imagery is partly fantastic, partly imaginative, as may be seen in the following extract : — " That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...the depth of heaven above, With wings folded I rest, on mine airy nest, As still as a brooding dove. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ! And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1866 - 390 pages
...depth of heaven above. With wings folded I rest, on mine airy nest, As still as a brooding dove. IT. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May hare broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 648 pages
...that atmosphere has a limit. We do not of course imagine that our two aeronauts would have reached " That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon : " but we think it highly probable that they would have arrived, dead or alive, at the exterior limit... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...the depth of heaven above, With wings folded I rest on mine airy nest, As still as a brooding dove. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer : And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...depth of heaven above, With wings folded I rest, on mine airy nest, As still 1 as a brooding dove. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her 1 and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent'... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...As still as a brooding dove. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom morttls call the mooe, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the...wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the aegels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer :... | |
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