 Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2881854Full view - About this book
 | 1896 - 676 pages
...White has well portrayed this in his lines: " Mysterious iiight; when our first parent knew Thee by report divine and heard thy name Did he not tremble...This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 504 pages
...on Night and Death for a friend, I have made some corrections. It is now as follows : — Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report...Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came, And lo ! Creation widened in Man's view. Who could have thought such Darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun !... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 pages
...The following noble Sonnet will vindicate his title to the possession of poetic genius : " Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report...the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with Host of Heaven came, And lo ! Creation widened in Man's view. Who could have thought such Darkness... | |
 | 1845 - 880 pages
...The following noble Sonnet will vindicate his title to the possession of poetic genius : " Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report...lovely frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue r Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 822 pages
...reveal far more than it hides ? Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee from Divine report, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This^glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtam of translucent dew Bathed in the rays... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...make us what we are : — even I Regained my freedom with a sigh. . — /. Slmua mit». MYSTERIOUS night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O sun ?... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...prey ; Men of thought, and men of action, CLEAB THE WAT ! SONNET. BY JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE. Vf ysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report...Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came, And, lo ! Creation widened in man's view. ATI ID could have thought such Darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun... | |
 | 412 pages
...exceedingly kind and attentive to all visitors. Jan. 181'.. POETRY. NIGHT. BT i. B. WHITX. Mysterious Night! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report...lovely Frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ! ' et, 'neath a curtain of translucent de\v. Bathed in the rays of the great setting Flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...prey; Men of thought, and men of action, CLEAR THE WAT ! SONNET. BY JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report...lovely Frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ? fet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bafhed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 1846 - 880 pages
...earnestly for the substantial of the Christian faith. SEMILAICUS. NIGHT. BY BET. BLANCO WHITE. MYSTEBIOCS night! when our first parent knew Thee, from report...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,... | |
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