 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...rays of the great setting Flame, Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came. And lo ! Creation widened on Man's view. Who could have thought such Darkness lay...Within thy beams, O Sun! or who could find, Whilst flower, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless Orbs thou mad'st us blind! Why... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ! or who could find, While fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou madest us blind ! Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore... | |
 | Samuel John Stone - 1875 - 103 pages
...Sonnet in our language ; at least, it is only in Milton and Wordsworth that I remember any rival :" " Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad' at us blind I' Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ': — If light can thus deceive,... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart Glennie - 1875 - 588 pages
...name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of...insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thot1 mad'st us blind ? Why do we, then, shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive,... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - 1875 - 370 pages
...heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay conceal'd Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, 'Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revcol'd, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...creation widened in man's view. Who could hare thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, 0 sun ! or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, for the blest. SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. Why do we, then, shun death with anxious strife ? If light... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Host of Heaven came, And lo ! Creation widened on Man's view. Who could have thought such Durkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun! or who could find, Whilst flowor, and leaf, and inseet stood revealed, That to such couutless Orbs thou mad'st us blind ! Why... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart Glennie - 1876 - 704 pages
...name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of...insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou inad'st us blind ? Why do we, then, shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...Creation widened in man's view ! Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, О mad'- 1 us blind ? Why do we, then, shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lav concealed Within thy beams, C sun ! or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and Insect stood revealed, for the blest. SONGS OF THREE CENTURIES. Why do we, then, shun death with anxious strife ? If light... | |
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neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo! Creation widened in man's view. 
