 CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with...  The Pleasures of Memory: With Other Poems - Page 155by Samuel Rogers - 1802 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Smith - 1810 - 394 pages
...flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of Hght; And , where the flowers of Paradise nnfold, Quaff fragrant nectar, from their cups of gold; There shall thy wings, rich as an eveniug sky, Expand and shyt with silent ecstacy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm — a thing that crept... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...Treatise on Bees, p. 11—13. * Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, JVIingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light ; And, where the flowers...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. about in the evening ; and bats issue from their places of concealment. Roach and dace float near the... | |
 | 1820 - 422 pages
...lathonia, tyc.j To the BUTTERFLY. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light ; And, where the flowers...their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1820 - 160 pages
...tears ! TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingled with her thou lovest in fields of light, And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragant nectar from their cups of gold. THE HERMIT. J(3 <l'l,ere shall thy wings, rich as an evening... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...course." TO THE BUTTERFLY. " CHILD of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And where the flowers of...rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...where the (lowers of Paradise unfold, Ouaff fragrant nectar from their cups of pold. There shall tliy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with...Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the hare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man; soon from his rell of clay To burst a seraph... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...Abbey. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lovest in fields of light ; And, where the flowers of Paradise...rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and... | |
 | Richard Laurence - 1834 - 158 pages
...for the year 1820, page 146. " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Roving with her thou lov'st, in fields of light ; And, where the flowers...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold ; 1 More's Divine Dialogues, vol. i. pp. 90, 91. 13 There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky,... | |
 | John White - 1835 - 170 pages
...have no end. THE BUTTERFLY. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers...their cups of gold, There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm; a thing that crept On the... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - 1835 - 418 pages
...porpetua." LEPIDOPTERA. INTRODUCTION. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st, in fields of light; And where the flowers...their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On... | |
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