 | Henry Charles Beeching - Carols - 1926 - 256 pages
...day ! We saw Thine eyes break from their East And chase the trembling shades away : We saw Thee and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. A Hymn of the Nativity Tityrus. Poor world (said 1), what wilt thou do To entertain this starry Stranger... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1927 - 586 pages
...thee in thy baulmy Nest, Young dawn of our aeternall DAY ! We saw thine eyes break from then- EASTE And chase the trembling shades away. We saw thee ;...blest the sight We saw thee by thine own sweet light. Tity. Poor WORLD (said I.) what wilt thou doe To entertain this starry STRANGER ? Is this the best... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry, English - 1928 - 888 pages
...Day ! We saw Thine eyes break from their east And chase the trembling shades away. We saw Thee, and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. Chorus We saw Thee . . . * Full Chorus Welcome, all wonders in one night ! Eternity shut in a span,... | |
 | English literature - 1922 - 176 pages
...Day ! We saw Thine eyes break from their east And chase the trembling shades away. We saw Thee, and we blest the sight. We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. was a good field for the exercise of the Christian virtues; but its moderation and its distrust of... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Fiction - 1988 - 532 pages
...day. It was Thy Day, sweet! and did rise Not from the East, but from Thine eyes . . . We saw Thee; and we blest the sight We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. Through the centuries the British have observed an unvarying custom as a royal babe is about to be... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Eternal Day! We saw Thine eyes break from the East And chase the trembling shades away. We saw Thee and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. (1. 31-36) 7 Then took he the wound, smiling, And died, content. AA; LiTA; MoAmPo; NAAL-2 War Is Kind... | |
 | 434 pages
...thee in thy baulmy Nest, Young dawn of our aeternall DAY ! We saw thine eyes break from their EA[S]TE And chase the trembling shades away. We saw thee;...blest the sight, We saw thee by thine own sweet light. Tity. Poor WORLD (said I.) what wilt thou doe To entertain this starry STRANGER? Is this the best thou... | |
 | 2011 - 136 pages
...eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the East, And chase the trembling shades away: We saw Thee, and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light. Poor world, said I, what wilt thou do To entertain this starry stranger? Is this the best thou canst... | |
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By those sweet eyes' persuasive powers, Where he meant frost, he scattered flowers. Chorus : By those sweet eyes', etc. BOTH : We saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal Day ! We saw Thine eyes break from their East, And chase the trembling... 
