How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orb'd glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle... Thalaba the destroyer - Pàgina 3per Robert Southey - 1809Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 310 pàgines
...yonder moon Divine — rolls through the dark blue depths ; beneath Her steady ray the desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! But what is hereby gained ? There is often as little pause between two words which are written in... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 pàgines
...glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths ; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! " This much admired passage has the true melody of blank verse, and it may be so written, without... | |
| Robert Southey - 1853 - 468 pàgines
...lines are employed in sequence which can be read into one. Two six-syllable lines, it will perhaps be THALABA THE DESTROYER. THE FIRST BOOK. How beautiful...ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! 2. Who at this untimely hour Wanders o'er the desert sands ? No station is in view, Nor palm-grove,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pàgines
...glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths ; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! SOUTHEY. I lie MORTCIS, fit: Ay, aye, " Good man, kind father, best of friends." These are the words... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 pàgines
...cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Bolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray...ocean, girdled with the sky, How beautiful is night!" Even to the inhabitants of a large town there is truth in the sentiment of Mi's. Hemans—herself a... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pàgines
...glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky....Wanders o'er the desert sands ? No station is in view, ISTor palm-grove, islanded amid the waste. The mother and her child, The widowed mother, and the fatherless... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pàgines
...Breaks tho serene of heaven. In full-orb'd glory, yonder moon divine, Itolls through the dark-blue depths ; Beneath her steady ray, The desert-circle...ocean girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! SOUTHEY. THE HOME FEIEND. NEW SERIES. PART VIII.] FEBRUARY. [PRICE SEIUSTIAN GOMEZ; OR, THE YOINO... | |
| Salem Town - 1855 - 492 pàgines
...glory, yonder moon divine, Bolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is the night ! Wonder and Admiration. Creation is a display of supreme goodness, no less than of wisdom... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads,...ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. They sin who tell us love' can die. With life all other passions fly,... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pàgines
...glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads, — • Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is Night ! SOUTHED. THE VANITY OF STATE. WHEREFORE pay you This adoration to a sinful creature ? I am flesh... | |
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