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" Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light. And where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold : There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut... "
The Naturalist's Library - Page 49
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The Pleasures of Memory: With Other Poems

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! . — Yet wert...cell of clay To burst a seraph In the blaze of day I CAPTIVITY. CAG'D in old woods, whose reverend echoes wake When the hern screams along the distant...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.* WHOE'EH thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark where the small...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! —Yet wert...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY* 77 HOE'EK them art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark where the small...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...shade. O Fancy, paint not coming days too fair ! Oft for the prospects sprightly May should yield, There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand...; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in ihe blaze of day ! ROGERS. H Rain-pouring clouds have darkened all the air, Or snows untimely whitened...
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The Pleasures of Memory, and Other Poems

Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...HERMIT. J(3 <l'l,ere shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! THE HERMIT. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend hermit grew ; The...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1806.* WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day !" " The Epistle to a Friend" is an exquisite piece; quite equal, in general style, to Horace or Pope....
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Rameses; an Egyptian Tale: with Historical Notes of the Era of the Pharoahs

Ramses II (King of Egypt), Edward Upham - 1824 - 366 pages
...silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomh and slept ! And such is man ! soon from his cell of clay To shine resplendent in the blaze of day.' Seizing the hand of Smendis, Rameses exclaimed : * my full...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ...

Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the hare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man; soon from his rell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY OCTOBER 10, 1806....
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1806.' WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark...
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