 | John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 352 pages
...where describe the s : iftness of thy course ? " Soaring through air to find the bright abode, " TV imperial palace of the thundering God. \ " We on thy pinions can surpass the windi " And leave the rolling universe hehi.il. " From star to star the mental optics rove, " Measure... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1819 - 794 pages
...By an African Woman. (From an American Newspaper.) Imagination ! who can sing: 'by force ? Or iiljn describe the swiftness of thy course ? Soaring through...abode, Th' imperial palace of the thundering God. Ne on thy pinions can surpass the nind And leave the rolling universe behind : From star to star the... | |
 | African Americans - 1843 - 412 pages
...the senses bind, And soft captivity involves the mind. Imagination ! who can sing thy force, Or who describe the swiftness of thy course ? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, Th' empyreal palace of the thundering God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...this continent has written more beautiful lines : ' Imagination ! who can sing thy force ? Or, who describe the swiftness of thy course'? Soaring through...find the bright abode.. Th' imperial palace of the thund'ring God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, _, And leave the rolling universe behind :... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...in New England.—Lotulon, 1773.] ON IMAGINATION. TMAGIXATION! who can sing thy source, -'- Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring; through air to find the bright abode, The empyreal palace of the thundering God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind And leave the rolling... | |
 | Henry William Elson - United States - 1905 - 404 pages
...her work her lines On the Imagination here follow: — "Imagination ! who can sing thy source Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, The empyreal palace of the thundering God, Who on thy pinions can surpass the wind And leave the rolling... | |
 | Henry William Elson - United States - 1905 - 394 pages
...her work her lines On the Imagination here follow : — "Imagination ! who can sing thy source Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, The empyreal palace of the thundering God, Who on thy pinions can surpass the wind And leave the rolling... | |
 | Phillis Wheatley - American poetry - 1909 - 108 pages
...the senses bind, And soft captivity involves the mind. Imagination! who can sing thy force? Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling... | |
 | Ethical culture movement - 1921 - 322 pages
...following is from Phillis' poem entitled "Imagination" : Imagination; who can sing thy force Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, The empyreal palace of the thundering God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind. And leave the rolling... | |
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God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling universe behind : From star to star the mental optics rove, Measure the skies, and range the realms above. There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, Or with new worlds amaze th 
