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
| James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...pearls, Stood now within the pretty flow'ret's eyes, Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.' The starlight dews All silently their tears of love...Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues. 2 The sweetness of the violet's deep blue eyes, Kiss'd by the breath of heaven, seems colour'd by its... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for tiie starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil,...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...voice a moment— then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill — But that is fancy, ur When injured ghosts complain ; When yawning graves...Bethink thee, William, of thy fault, Thy pledge and A forcible contrast to this still ecene is then given in a brief description of the same landscape... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...voice a moment — then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill — But that is fancy, med in the wainscots. Sir A forcible contrast to this still scene is then given in a brief description of the same landscape... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. 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... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 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 bisc... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...whisper, on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently, their tears of love Instill, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse, Deep into Nature's breast, the spirit of her hues. The sky is changed '. and sutil л change '. О night, [strong: And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...whisper, on the bill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently, their tears of love instill, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse, Deep Into Nature's breast, the spirit of her hues. The sky is changed : and inch a change ! O night, [strong ! And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 690 pages
...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." The following sketch of a midsummer night's thunder storm in the same sublime region, is still more... | |
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