 Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first, love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse...  Studies in Philology - Page 2221921Full view - About this book
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 | Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 324 pages
...race ; Or taught my soul to funcy augiit But a white celestial thought ; When yet I Imd not walked above A mile or two from my first love ; And looking...back at that short space, Could see a glimpse of his bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...beginning — " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence.... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought -, When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love ; And, looking...back at that short space, Could see a glimpse of his bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those... | |
 | 1856 - 598 pages
...Retreate. " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial! thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back,... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1858 - 326 pages
...underflood this place Appointed for my fecond race, Or taught my foul to fancy ought But a white, celeftiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my firft Love, And looking back, at that fhort fpace, Could fee a glimpfe of his bright face ; When on... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - 312 pages
...understood this place, Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or...back, at that short space, Could see a glimpse of his bright face ; When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...beginning— " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence.... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...beginning — " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence.... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 516 pages
...— " Happy those early dayes, when I Shin'd in my Angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to...back, at that short space, Could see a glimpse of his bright face ; When on some gilded Cloud or flowre My gazing soul would dwell an houre, And in those... | |
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