 ... glancing sunbeam warms, And now they look cold as death ! Oh ! often and often have I escaped From the stir of the noisy crowd, And a thousand fanciful visions shaped On the face of a passing cloud. The clouds ! the clouds ! round the sun at night,...  Repentance: And Other Poems - Page 96by Mary Ann Gray (formerly Browne.), Mary Ann Browne - 1829 - 118 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1829 - 140 pages
...passing cloud ! The clouds, the clouds ! round the sun at night They come like a band of slaves, Who are only bright in their master's light, And each...glory laves. Oh, they are lovely, — lovely, then ! Whilst the heaven around them glows ; Now touched with a purple or amber stain, And now with the... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...passing cloud ! The clouds, the clouds ! round the sun at night They come like a band of slaves, Who are only bright in their master's light, And each...glory laves. Oh, they are lovely — lovely, then ! Whilst the heaven around them glows ; Now touched with a purple or amber stain, And now with the... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1830 - 472 pages
...passing cloud ! The clouds, the clouds ! round the sun at night They come like a band of slaves, Who are only bright in their master's light, And each in his glory laves. Ob, they are lovely—lovely then I Whilst the heaven around them glows ; Now touched with a purple... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 426 pages
...! the clouds ! round tht sun at night They come like a band of slaves, That are only bright in the master's light, And each in his glory laves. Oh, they...clouds! in the starlit sky, How they float on the light wind's wings : Now resting an instant, then glancing by, In their fickle wanderings ! Now they hide... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 492 pages
...! the clouds ! round tht sun at night They come like a band of slaves, That are only bright in the master's light, And each in his glory laves. Oh, they...glows — Now touched with a purple and amber stain, The clouds ! the clouds ! in the starlit sky, How they float on the light wind's wings : Now resting... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 304 pages
...visions shaped The clouds ! the clouds! round the sun at night, They come like a band of slaves, They are only bright in their master's light, And each...! in the starlit sky, How they float on the light wind's wings : Now resting an instant, then glancing by, In their fickle wanderings ! Now they hide... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...visions shaped The clouds ! the clouds! round the sun at night, They come like a band of slaves, They are only bright in their master's light, And each...clouds ! the clouds ! in the starlit sky, How they ffoat on the light wind's wings : Now resting an instant, then glancing by, In their fickle wanderings... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...! the clouds ! round the sun at night They come like a band of slaves, That are only bright in the master's light, And each in his glory laves. Oh, they...the hue of the rose. The clouds ! the clouds ! in thn starlit sky, How they float on the light wind's wings ; Now resting an instant, then glancing by,... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...passing cloud. The clouds ! the clouds ! round the sun at night, They come like a band of slaves, They are only bright in their master's light, And each...! in the starlit sky, How they float on the light wind's wings : Now resting an instant, then glancing by, In their fickle wanderings ! Now they hide... | |
 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 pages
...round the sun at night, They come like a band of slaves, Who are only bright in their master's sight, And each in his glory laves. Oh, they are lovely — lovely, then ! Whilst the heaven around them glows ; Now touched with a purple or amber stain, And now with the... | |
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