 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 710 pages
...spring I found some drills With echoes beaten from th' eternal hills'; or the more familiar lines — '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,'... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 378 pages
...earth, the second concerning heaven. Of the world he writes : I saw Eternity the other night Like s. great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 382 pages
...from Vaughan, — the first concerning earth, the second concerning heaven. Of the world he writes : I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All <alm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, yean, Driv'n by the spheres, Like... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1904 - 316 pages
...seek, but of Nothingness personified. We perhaps know and admire those verses of Henry Vaughan — "I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1905 - 628 pages
...steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. ; . , THE VISION I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) THE SHEPHERD BOY'S SONG HE that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 pages
...sweets of thy young breath, Expecting till thy Saviour comes To dress them, and uns waddle death l 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.... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1905 - 376 pages
...saintly well-ordered mind could show, to produce such lines as those with which Eternity opens : " 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."... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1927 - 526 pages
...be coincidental. It will be remembered that Vaughan describes hia vision of ' Eternity ' as being : Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm,...bright, And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years Driv'n by the spheres Lake a vast shadow mov'd, In which the world And all her train were hur1'd. He... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1905 - 314 pages
...heaven rather than upon earth. Eternity was his one thought. His poem, The World, begins superbly : — I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring...pure and endless light All calm as it was bright. This is a conceit, to be sure, but it is a glorious one. Vaughan loves nature, and his Bird is as tender... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 308 pages
...To the pleasant Isle of Aves, to look at it once again. 32 1857. Charles Kingsley. LIFE'S PHILOSOPHY THE WORLD I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, AH calm, as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres... | |
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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. 
