 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...gently takes him up again. THE RETREAT. IT APPY those early days, when I Shined in my Angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...But a white, celestial thought : When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...death. cxxxn THE RETREAT. George Herbert. Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught 5 But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first Love,... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 328 pages
...glaunce most gladly dye." THE RETREATE. HAPPT 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 fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 418 pages
...gliumce, most gladly dye.1 THE RETEEATE. II A IT Y those early dayes, when I Shiu'd in my angell-iniUncy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; "When yet I hud not walkt above A mile or two, from my first... | |
 | Mother - 1872 - 366 pages
...moaning. Charles Kingsley. THE RETREAT. APPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space, Could see a glimpse... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...which seems to some extent to have suggested the leading thought. We quote the opening lines : — " Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel infancy ; Before I understood the place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught •But a white, celestial... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 pages
...which seems to some extent to have suggested the leading thought. We quote the opening lines : — *' Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel infancy; Before I understood the place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought... | |
 | William Treat - 1873 - 234 pages
...Their poise and their plenitude rebuke us. So the poet sings sadly, yet truly for some of us25 : — " Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy ; Before I taught my soul to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...blest eternity. ЫENRY MORE. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days when I Slnned in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy anght But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1877 - 370 pages
...of our poets. The lovely lines of Henry Vaughan might be taken as a type of thousands more : — " Happy those early days, when I Shined in my Angel...soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; * * * Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound ; Or had the black art... | |
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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 walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse... 
