| 1843 - 602 pages
...the grave, but the voice of the poet still rings through the earth with its rich and stately tone. " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...full-orb'd glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert-circle spreads Like the round ocean girdled with... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...submit his fancy to the control of his judgment. THE WIDOWED MOTHER. From IHALABA THE DESTROYER. I. How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the...speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The... | |
| 1843 - 744 pages
...author's ear and his skill. We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting the exquisite opening — " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...speck, nor stain. Breaks the serene of heaven, In full-orb 'd glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...through the earth with its rich and stately tone. " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills ihe silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck,...full-orb'd glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert-circle spreads Like the round ocean girdled with... | |
| Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - 450 pages
...quality. — Boston Transcrijjt. THE LONDON AND PA11IS LADIES' MAGAZINE FOE NOVEMBER, 1859. NIGHT. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven ; lu full orb'd glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths : Beneath her steady ray,... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...author's ear and his skill. We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting the exquisite opening— A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, " How beautiful is night! Breaks the serene of heaven, In full-orb'd glory yonder Moon divine Rolls... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...picture of a widowed mother wandering over the sands of the east during the silence of night : — full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Kolls through the dark-bine depths. Beneath her steady ray The... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...illustrative of the harmony of numbers. s How beautiful is night! "A dewy freshness fills the silent aJr; " No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain " Breaks the serene of heaven: "In full orb'd glory yonder moon divine " Rolls through the dark blue depths. " Beneath her steady ray... | |
| 1849 - 608 pages
...majestic presence of the night, As of the one we love." The poetic genius of the place whispered — " How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No cloud is there, nor speck, nor stain Blots the serene of heaven. In full-orbed glory the majestic moon... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...evermore ? O, may I find that boundless sea, A bright, a blest eternity ! RAFFLES. A MOONLIGHT NIGHT. How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the...through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! SOUTHEY.... | |
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