| English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...on lessening orb» enFlowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yield. Frail as your silken listers of the field ; Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, [crush, Suns sink on suns, on systems systems Headlong extinct, to one dark centre (all, And Death... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1798 - 472 pages
...Heaven's high arch ihall rum, 385 Suns fink on funs, and fyftems fyftems crufh, Headlong, extindt, to' one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and...mingle all ! — Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the ftorm, Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form, 390 Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,... | |
| 1810 - 578 pages
...lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach. Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Trail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on swns, and systems systems crush; Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night,... | |
| Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...your silken sisters of the field ; 200 MEMOIRS OF Star after star from heav'n's high arch shall rusK Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush ; Headlong,...dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos cover all; Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal nature lifts her changeful form ;... | |
| Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...may fight till he is twice o'erthrowii ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield. Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from...systems crush, , Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre faH, And Death and Night and Chaos mingle all ! — 'Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm,... | |
| England - 1849 - 792 pages
...Suns sink on snns, and systems systems crush ; Heaillong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Dw-k, and Night, and Chaos, mingle all; Till, o'er the wreck, emerging from the flora, Immortal Nature lifta her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 638 pages
...yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from heaven's higli arch shall run, Suns sink on suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong,...to one dark centre fall, And death, and night, and díaos, mingle all! — Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful... | |
| 1822 - 694 pages
...encroach. Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field I Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush,...Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form ; Mounts from the funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines another and the same.' Botanic Garden, Canto... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1821 - 766 pages
...j Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, [crush, Suns sink on suns, on systems systems Headlong extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death and Night and Chaos cover all ; Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...with equal light and glory : — " Flowers of the sky ! ye, too, to age must yiuld, Frail, as your silken sisters of the field ! , Star after star from...systems systems crush ; Headlong, extinct, to one dark ruitiv fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos, mingle all! • Till, o'er the wreck, emerging from the... | |
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