 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
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...into voice a moment, then is PI ill. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the star-light dews All silently their tears of...they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of their hues. Ye stars ! which are the poetry of Heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...VVeeping themselves away, till they infuso Deep into nature's breast the spirit of her hues. LXXXVni. fate Of men and empires, — Ч is to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 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." Lake Leman, in a Storm. " Thy sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 886 pages
...whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love'instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues. ' force, to be inadequate to the delineation : a painting can give no sufficient idea of the ocean.... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...visible in all their ways, thoughts and works. These are ready to exclaim with the poet, " Ye stars, that 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1898 - 712 pages
...grass keys its own drap of dew, vide ' Songs,' p. 3, of James Ballantyne. And Lord Byron wrote :— The starlight dews All silently their tears of love...Deep into nature's breast the spirit of her hues. But Chesterfield said :— The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...upward from thy base sweep slowly, with dim eyes suffused with tears, AWAKE, THOU MOUNTAIN FORM. 702. YE STARS! which are the poetry of heaven, if in your bright leaves we would read the fate of man and empires, — 'tis to he forgiven, that, in our aspirations to be great, our destinies... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their teal's of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they...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... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...with the phenomenon ; but we have not learned that he left any poetical account of his feelings. " 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... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...from star to star, in which the heavenly host is to survey the wonders and glories of the universe. " 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... | |
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