 Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for...  Lord Byron - Page 237by Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...This is the chief end of high poetry, of high painting, and of high sculpture. A. Cunningham. STARS. YE stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspiration to be great, Our destinies... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill. But that Is fancy — for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away." A person who was of these parties has thus described to me one of their evenings : — " When the bite... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of...Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues. Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues. ' Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies p'erleap... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of...Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues. (!) LXXXYIII. Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the... | |
 | sir Henry Delmé (fict.name.) - 1841 - 524 pages
...Henry could not find it in his heart to disturb his sister's dream of happiness. CHAPTER V. THE FETE. " Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! If, in your bright leaves, we would read the fate Of men and empires,—'tis to be forgiven, That, in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American poetry - 1841 - 330 pages
...looking down through our eyes into the secret depths of our being ; and we grow pure with the feeling. " Ye stars, which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, 't is to be forgiven, That, in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, rm, » force, tn be inadequate to the delineation : a painting can giTe no sufficient Idea of the ocean.... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1843 - 472 pages
...peerless majesty. Then have we witnessed that " Starlight dews All silently their tears of love distil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into nature's breast the spirit of her hues." And not less genial has been the calm and holy influence of such an hour on human spirits with their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of...spirit of her hues. LXXXVIII. Ye stars ! which are the, popfry "fh?yivmij If in your bright leaves we would read the fate > f Of men and empires, — 'tis... | |
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