 Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at...  Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Page 129by Thomas Moore - 1817 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...— holier far • ' Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions... | |
 | 1818 - 798 pages
...— holier far '• Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be "That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...whitens with eternal sleet. While summer in a vale of flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...not — holier far " Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...— holier far " Than even this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee." * " On the shores of a quadrangular lake stand a thousand...And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...not — holier far " Than even this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 346 pages
...hence called Suristan (the Land of Roses).* " Each common bush shall Syrian roses wear." VIRGIL. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes." T. MOORE. Forster says, " the rose of Kashmire for its brilliancy and delicacy of odour has long been... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...not— holier far " Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
 | 1872 - 348 pages
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...olives, vines, Our cedars, palms, and all the verdant wealth That crowns fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 558 pages
...Lalla Rookh, suffice to explain the mystery and soften the harshness of the foregoing criticism. " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air, O'er all th' enchanted regions... | |
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