 I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...  Poems of sorrow, death and immortality - Page 34501912Full view - About this book
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...thyself will be the sun, Thou 'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a...shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy,... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...thyself will be the sun, Thou 'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a...shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy,... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...see Him, Who looks upon thee from his glorious throne, And minds the covenant betwixt all and one. THE WORLD. I SAW eternity the other night, Like a...Near him his lute, his fancy, and his flights,— Wit so delights— With gloves and knots, the silly snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure All... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. " THE WORLD. " / saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of...bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, yearn, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd."... | |
 | 1907 - 516 pages
...eu hunain a barodd i Henry Vaughan, y Siluriad, draethu ei len yn y geiriau hynod hynny o'i eiddo : I saw eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...And round beneath it. Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, In which the world And all her train were hurl'd. Weithiau... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...and thy bordering light ! O for thy centre and mid-day ! For sure that is the narrow way ! THE WORLD. And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years,...complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his flights, — Wit so delights — With gloves and knots, the silly snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...keep those cares without thee ; let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. VAUGHAN. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a...which the world And all her train were hurled. The doating lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his flights... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English poetry - 1856 - 330 pages
...judge I did not love thee. John x iv. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandmeiUt. THE WORLD. I. I 9AW eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure...And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The... | |
 | John Holland - 1856 - 386 pages
...Understand it if you can ; if not, turn for an example to ' The World,' in Cattermole's Selections : — ' I saw Eternity, the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright !' There is nothing in poetry more perfect in its kind than this. I feel, when I read it, as though... | |
 | John Brown - English literature - 1861 - 516 pages
...from the quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other night Like a...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd."... | |
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