 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pàgines
...other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to despatch by fear. BUTLER. Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. BYRON: Bride of Abydos. White as a white sail on a dusky sea, When half the horizon's clouded and half... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 pàgines
...grateful in the midst of all of them, for the power and pleasures of hope ; — " The rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray." I proceed now, to consider the second class of disappointments men are called to endure, — such as... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1879 - 450 pàgines
...has even a finer simile, when in " The Bride of Abydos," he says : — " Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the...clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray ! " Here the metaphor is plain, elegant, appropriate. No critic would deny, I apprehend, that this... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pàgines
...SHAKESPEARE. But thy eternal summer shall not fade. Sonnet Л'УШ. SHAKESPEARE. Be thou the rainbow to the ! Tile Bride o/ Abydos, Cant. H. BYROX. THE POET'S ADMIRATION. That eagle's fate and mine are one,... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pàgines
...midway in the twentieth division of the second canto : Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life I The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! A common saying is seen near the end of the poem, at the death of Zuleika : Hark to the hurried question... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pàgines
...and promise to mine ark ; Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife, Be thou the rainbow to the on g 6 " night how came it Ah I rather ask what will not woman dare ? Whom youth and pity l I Blest — as the Muezzin's strain from Mecca's wall To pilgrims pure and prostrate at his call ;... | |
 | Edinburgh - 1881 - 552 pàgines
...that time all must be content with its earthly value, and must say of it: " Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tinta to-morrow with prophetic ray !" A PAPER LIGHTHOUSE. BY J. KEITH ANGUS. j]ENT on a shooting expedition... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pàgines
...help it." c. HAKRIET B EEC HER STOWE— Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ch. XX. WIFE. Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away. And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! «Í. BÏBON— The bride of Abydos. Canto IL St. 20. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife.... | |
 | 1882 - 1044 pàgines
...pursuit of his calling he may well invoke hope to his aid and say — ' ' Bo thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic rny." But hope is often doomed to disappointment, and the clouds created by rash expectations and wild... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...Soul ! sinj. The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. Canto ii. stanza 2. Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the...clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray ! Stnnzn 20. He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace ! * Ibid. Hark ! to the hurried question of... | |
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Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife, Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray... 
