As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild... The American Whig Review - Page 387edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
| 1821 - 614 pages
...splendid set of verses. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heav'n's clear azure sheds her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unmimber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1821 - 270 pages
...too!" She knocked at the cottage window— still no answer. " All silent as night!" said she— *' When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene." —Angelina, as she repeated these lines stood with her back to the cottage win* dow; the window opened,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...her guilty race. The troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumined all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...liquid murmur pours ; And lulls the silent scene to more profound repose. MOONLIGHT. Pope's Homer. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales ; the... | |
| Charles Butler - 1822 - 706 pages
...white barley and oats, and awaited the fair" throned morning." Pope thus translates the simile : " As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, " O'er...Around her throne the vivid planets roll, " And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, " O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, "And tip with silver... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 186 pages
...night ! " When the fair moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her silver light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene,...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a tender lustre shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks... | |
| Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...her guilty race. Tlie troops exulting sat in order round, And beaming fires illumin'd all the ground. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's...not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her tin-one the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumberM gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 258 pages
...moon, refulgent larnc ofjiight, O'er heaven's clear az.uve shertsybertacred light, When not a hreatli disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts...stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the... | |
| Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...that noble scene, whose beauties it is scarcely possible to transfuse into any foreign dialect : — As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's...a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'crcasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, ... O'er heav'n's clear azure sheds her sacred light, i When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, . •....scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, , _( , And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And... | |
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