| New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...starlight, we lose our consciousness of the terrestrial in the superber consciousness of the universal. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew>... | |
| Tracts - 1847 - 402 pages
...Coleridge (Vol. I., p. 439) calls "the finest and most grandly conceived in the English language." "Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, "'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host... | |
| Gift books - 1828 - 398 pages
...friend, Joseph Blanco White. MYSTERIOUS night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host... | |
| English literature - 1828 - 404 pages
...friend, Joseph Blauco White. MYSTERIOUS night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperu.^, with the host... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...prying fingers of detective years Shall drag thy secret out into the light. BLANCO WHITE. TO NIGHT. MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heart! thy name; Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue?... | |
| English essays - 1835 - 736 pages
...again. SONNET. NIGHT AND DEATH. Mysterious Night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name. Did he not tremble for this lovely...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the Host... | |
| United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...the finest and most grandly conceived in our language: — " Mysterions Night! when our first parents knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name,...lovely frame—- This glorious canopy of light and blue J Yet 'ueath a cnrreni of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
| Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...White. For beauty and sublimity, whether of imagery, language, or thought, what sonnet is its superior ? Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee...This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host... | |
| England - 1841 - 508 pages
...and the tears of mortal grief for ever wiped away. SONNET. By JOSEPH BLANCO WHITS. Night and Death. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee,...This glorious Canopy of Light and Blue ? Yet 'neath a Curtain of translucent Dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting Flame, Hesperus with the Host... | |
| Christianity - 1841 - 500 pages
...and the tears of mortal grief for ever wiped away. SONNET. BY JOSBPH BLANCO WHITS. Night and Death. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee,...This glorious Canopy of Light and Blue ? Yet 'neath a Curtain of translucent Dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting Flame, Hesperus with the Host... | |
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