 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 49edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pages
...cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! Tet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day 1" See how gaily the Queen of Spain butterfly (Arffynnis Lathonia) skims along the air, sporting in... | |
 | 926 pages
...silent extacy, Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a web and slept ; And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." How CLOSELY is this allied to the hey-day of our youth, full of hopes and pleasures, at length " To... | |
 | 1850 - 622 pages
...fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. Thus shall thy wings, rich as au evening sky, Expand and shnt with silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm —...! And such is man : soon from his cell of clay To hurst a seraph in the blaze of day ! ROGERS. IN our last paper we considered a few of the many wonderful... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 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 thou...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! TO THE FRAGMENT OF A STATUE OF HERCULES, COMMONLY f vi.rl n THE TORSO. AND dost thou still, thou... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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. ROOERS. XXVIII. BOOKS. " IT is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1851 - 354 pages
...ecstacy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb, and And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! INSCRIPTION FOR A TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE SHADES. APPROACH with reverence. There are those within... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...whole domain ; And so be sure of generous exercise, The youth of age, and medicine of the wiae. Rogers. of the Sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...cell of clay To burst, a seraph in the blaze of day. ! ; illt tt |ta« JTw. Chateaubriand. TL descend le cercueil : et les roses sans taehe Qu'un pere y... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 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 ! AN EPITAPH ON A ROBIN KED-BKEAST.* TREAD lightly here, for here, 'tis said, When piping -winds are... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 1070 pages
...cups of gold ; There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut In silent ecstasy : Tet wert thou once a worm — a thing that crept On the...man— soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph hi the blaze of day.' And then, again, how easy is the transition, from such a comparison as this,... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm ; a thing, that crept On the hare earth, then wrought a tomb, and slept ! And such is...cell of clay To burst a seraph, in the blaze of day ! ROGER8. It has been beautifully observed, that the Chrysalis is the eracUe of the ' Butterfly, at... | |
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