 Twas born in a moment, yet, quick as its birth It was stretched to the uttermost ends of the earth, And, fair as an angel, it floated as free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean ! how gentle its swell ! Like a woman's...  Poems - Página 10por Amelia - 1846 - 200 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 908 páginas
...floated as free With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean ! how gentle it» swell ! Like a woman's soft bosom it rose and it fell...stealing laughingly o'er, When they saw the fair rainbow, knoll down on the shore. Í No sweet hymn ascended, no murmur of prayer, 'i Yet I felt that the spirit... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 páginas
...the earth, And, fair as angel, it floated as free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean ! how gentle its swell ! Like...woman's soft bosom, it rose and it fell ; While its bright sparkling waves, stealing laughingly o'er, When they saw the fair rainbow, knelt down on the... | |
 | 1846 - 730 páginas
...the earth ; And fair as an angel, it floated as free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean, how gentle its swell! Like...SHORE. No sweet hymn ascended, no murmur of prayer, Yet / felt that the spirit of worship tea• there, And bent my young head, in devotion and love, 'Neath... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 páginas
...the earth, And, fair as an angel, it llonted as free With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean! how gentle its swell! Like...spirit of worship was there, And bent my young head in devonon and love, 'Neath tho form ot' the angel, that lloatcd above. How wide was tho sweep of its'beautiful... | |
 | 1848 - 832 páginas
...the earth, And, fair as an angel, it floated as free With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean! how gentle its swell! Like...bent my young head in devotion and love, 'Neath the lorm of the angel, that floated above. How wide was the sweep of its beautiful wings! How boundless... | |
 | 1843 - 424 páginas
...earth, And, fair as an angel, it floated all free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean ! how gentle its swell ! Like...laughingly o'er. When they saw the fair rainbow knelt down to the shore ; No sweet hymn ascended, no murmur of prayer, Yet I felt that the spirit of worship was... | |
 | America - 1852 - 544 páginas
...the earth, And, fair as an angel, it floated as free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean ! how gentle its swell ! Like...Yet I felt that the spirit of worship was there, And I bent my young head, in devotion and love, 'Neath the form of the angel, that floated above. How wide... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - 1852 - 516 páginas
...earth, And, fair as an angel, it floated as free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. •4 How calm was the ocean! how gentle its swell! Like...it fell; While its light sparkling waves, stealing naUjfMlngly o'er, When they saw the fair rainbow knelt down on the shore. No sweet hymn ascended, no... | |
 | 1859 - 802 páginas
...angel, it floated all free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How ca'm was the ocean, h"w gentle its swell, Like a woman's soft bosom, it rose and it fell, While its 1'ght sparkling waves, stealing laughingly o'er, When they saw the fair rainbow knelt down to tbe shore... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - 1860 - 704 páginas
...the earth, And, fair as an angel, it floated as free, With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. How calm was the ocean ! how gentle its swell ! Like...prayer, Yet I felt that the spirit of worship was And bent my young head, in devotion and love, 'Neath the form of the angel, that floated above. How... | |
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