O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3451875Full view - About this book
| Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...who can read, without admiration, his address to the Sun, — O thou that rollest above, round as tue shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou coinest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky : the moon, cold and pale,... | |
| 1850 - 818 pages
...everlasting light Í Thon comes! forth in thy awful beauty! the stars bide themselves In the «ky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks In the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone ; who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaka of the mountains fall, the mountains... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, 0 sun ! thy everlasting light 1 nse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey ; Whose...Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way ! movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains... | |
| Salem Town - 1851 - 422 pages
...The tombs, And monumental caves of death, look cold, And shoot a chlllness to my trembling heart. 0 thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my...are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou eomest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, pale and cold,... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 pages
...(disguised,) demonstrating, Mammon, foul, (wicked ?) pestilent, teeming, source. SECT. CCLXXIV. THE SUN. 1 O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, 0. Sun ! thy everlasting jght ? 2 Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...call back, maid of Lutha, the years thiit have rolled away! FROM CABTHON OSSIAN 's ADDRESS TO THE Su\ and dull proclamations, but eomest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the .sky ; the moon, cold and pale,... | |
| 1917 - 462 pages
...passages a force and beauty, as new as they were admirable. That passage in Carthon beginning with — "O, thou, that rollest above, round as the shield...Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light?" was, by his manner, rendered exceedingly beautiful. And again, in Comala, "There Comala sits forlorn... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...feeble voice. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon ; I feel it warm around ! O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains... | |
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