 tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years. An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form...  American Literature - Page 297by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1843 - 798 pages
...вес A play «if hopes anil iVnrs, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the sphere«. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast shadowy things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wuigs Invisible Wo... | |
 | 1878 - 1002 pages
...predicted, would soon acquiesce in its operation*, and know their proper place : as mere, puppets, moved ' At bidding of vast formless Things That shift the scenery to and fro.' The hope and the fear of a life to come would presently cease, and men would be well-pleased to lose... | |
 | 1888 - 350 pages
...breathes fitfully, Now curses, and now cheers. Mimes in the form of magnates high Mutter and murmur low, And hither and thither fly ; Mere puppets they who come and go PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. At bidding of misshapen things, That drive them blindly to and fro,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo ! That motley drama !— oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo ! That motley drama — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot ! With its Phantom chased for evermore,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. II. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo ! in. That motley drama — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot ! With its Phantom chased for evermore,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo ! That motley drama !— oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore,... | |
 | L. S. Lavenu - 1856 - 422 pages
...continued the subject, but Mr. Harley excused himself, and went to his laboratory. CHAPTEE VIII. " Mimes in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...formless things That shift the scenery to and fro." EDGAB POE. SIR HARRY resumed his Morning Herald. He had read all the leaders, and was entering on the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 pages
...to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully T The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble...Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe ! That motley drama — oh, be sure It shall not be forgot ! With its Phantom chased for evermore,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 388 pages
...theatre, to see A play of hopes and fenrs. While the orehestra breathes fitfully The musie of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high. Mutter and mumble...hither and thither fly — Mere puppets they, who eome and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the seenery to and fro, Flapping from out... | |
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