| Elizabeth Dana - Poetry - 1858 - 228 pages
...shown, Until the fight of faith is o'er^ And earth shall vex the soul no more ! SONNET. BLANCO WHITE* Mysterious Night ! When our first Parent kneW Thee...heard thy name* Did he not tremble for this lovely framej This glorious Canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent deWj Hesperus... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...let me use the language of a great mind : # " Mysterious Night ! when onr first parent know Thee by report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble...this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and bine 1 Yet 'ncath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting n*mo, Hesperns... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...SH&ifc. Its author is the late "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... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...late gtb. lostpk glanto m\plt. " Mysterious night! when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'ueath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with... | |
| Education - 1859 - 396 pages
...MYSTKRIOUS Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine ami heard thy r.nr:ic. Did he riot tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neat h :i curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting 8amo, Hesperus with... | |
| Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...And every human heart Shall join in one great service, Each happy in his part.— From the German. MYSTERIOUS Night ! when our first parent knew Thee...lovely frame — This glorious canopy of light and blue 1 Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus,... | |
| Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 pages
...silence bursts apart, And the soul's boundless future is present in my heart. PM CCCCXVIII. BIANCO WHITE. MYSTERIOUS Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and hlue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
| Edward Everett - Europe - 1860 - 528 pages
...It was an evening to make one feel the solemn significance of that glorious sonnet of Blanco White : Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this goodly frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'ueath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed... | |
| Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - Religious poetry, American - 1861 - 364 pages
...thee, redeemed from sin! The city gates unfold, — enter, O enter in ! TO NIGHT. J. BLANCO WHITE. 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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...blood. Shall he expire, And unavenged ? Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! N1GHT. — J. EUmco Wllite. 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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