 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1896 - 334 pages
...flee, And those that weary are of light, find rest in thee. J. fforris of Bemerton. LXVI. CL. A VISION. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, 5 Like a vast shadow moved; in which the World And all her train were hurl'd. LXVII. CM. ALEXANDER'S... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pages
...the sweets of thy young breath, Expecting till thy Saviour comes To dress them, and unswaddle death! THE WORLD. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1896 - 378 pages
...judge, I did not love Thee. JOHN, CAP. 14. VER. 15. If ye love Me, keep My commandments. THE WORLD. f^ I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...And round Beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.... | |
 | Henry Clark Powell - 1896 - 524 pages
...the following fine image in order to convey some idea of the contrast between eternity and time — " I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of...and endless light, All calm, as it was bright ; And ronnd beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd. ..."... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1897 - 328 pages
...thy mild injunction nothing move me, I would both think and judge I did not love thee. THE WORLD. -^ SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of...And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 308 pages
...' A short poem, entitled The World, notable chiefly for the beautiful image with which it opens : ' I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...and endless light, All calm, as it was bright,' and the well-known lines beginning : ' They are all gone into the world of light.' are perhaps the only... | |
 | Dennis Hird - 1897 - 182 pages
...all of them collectively and every one singly, find comfort and assurance in the poet's words — 1 I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.' " Loud laughter broke up the conference. CHAPTER VII AS the curate rose to leave, Eva said, " Mother... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1898 - 854 pages
...things, "They are all gone into a world of light " ; •• The World," with its magnificent opening — I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of...pure and endless light All calm as it was bright; " The Retreat," with its suggestion of Wordsworth's great ode ; " The Storm," with its intensely realised... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1898 - 868 pages
...things, "They are all gone into a world of light " ; " The World," with its magnificent opening — I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light All calm as it was bright ; " The Retreat," with its suggestion of Wordsworth's great ode ; " The Storm," with its intensely... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1899 - 392 pages
...the weather steers, So thrive I best 'twixt joys and tears, And all the year have some green ears. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night Like a great...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, 5 Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
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I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, ^ All calm, as it was bright ; And round Beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd ; in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. 
