 | 1809 - 530 pàgines
...thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, , By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. There is another fragment, called a Vision, which belongs to a higher order of poetry. If Burns had... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pàgines
...muse," who concludes an address to her pupil, almost unique for simplicity and beautiful poetry, with these lines : " I saw thy pulse's madd'ning play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way 5 Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pàgines
...saw thy pulse's maddening play Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven ! ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, The loves, the ways of simple swains, Till now, o'er all my wide... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 pàgines
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemn and sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 pàgines
...saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild, send thee Pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor.ray, By Passion driven ; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. Of strains like the above, solemn and sublime, with that rapt and inspired melancholy in which the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pàgines
...play, ' Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, ' By passion driven j ' But yet the light that led astray ' Was light from heaven. * I taught thy mannersrpainting strains, r The loves, the ways of simple swains, ' Till now, o'er all my... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 444 pàgines
...adored Namet I taught thee how to pour in song, ' To sooth thy flame. c I saw thy pulse's maddening play, ' Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way, ' Misled...light that led astray" ' Was light from heaven. ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, ' The loves, the ways of simple swains, . c Till now, o'er all... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - 484 pàgines
...muse," who concludes an address to her pupil, almost unique for simplicity and beautiful poetry, with these lines :— " I saw thy pulse's madd'ning play...yet the light that led astray, Was light from heaven !" • " J have already transgressed beyond the bounds * v; Vide the Vision— Dnan 2nd. bounds I had... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1820 - 458 pàgines
...pulse's maddening play, ' Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, ' Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, ' By passion driven ; ' But yet the light that led astray ' Was light from heaven. ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, ' The loves, the ways of simple swains, ' 'Till now, o'er all... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pàgines
...adored JVamc, 'I taught thee how to pour in song, ' To sooth thy flame. " I saw thy pulse's maddening play, ' Wild send thee pleasure's devious way, ' Misled...light that led astray ' Was light from heaven. ' I taught thy manners-painting strains, ' The loves, the ways of simple swains, ' Till now, o'er all my... | |
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When youthful Love, warm-blu.shing strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame "I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's... 
