 | English poetry - 1866 - 192 páginas
...eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning-star shines dead ; As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which...woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind and peer ! And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. * * * That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 páginas
...In the light of its golden wings. And when sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath, Its ardors of rest and of love, And the crimson pall of eve may...widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the... | |
 | Moxon Edward and co - 200 páginas
...depth of heaven above, With wings folded I rest, on mine airy nest, As still as a brooding dove. IV. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 páginas
...a brooding dove. Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; Aud wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the...widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the... | |
 | Woodland - 1868 - 186 páginas
...heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back...woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 páginas
...the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit Its ardours of rest and of love, And the crimson pall...widen the rent in my wind-built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are paved with the moon... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 páginas
...of its golden wings. And when sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath, Its ardours of rest and love, And the crimson pall of eve may fall From the...golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built teut, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 páginas
...rest, on mine airy nest, As still' as a brooding dove. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, AVhom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like...them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, N When I widen the ront1 in my wind -built tent, Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 páginas
...expression, " Leave not a rack behind," is well known. 8 It» ardors, — its warm sympathies with. Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the...broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars j>eep behind her ami peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, When... | |
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And the crimson pall of eve may fall From 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 call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor... 
