 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
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...a.ges. mojiy a nymph appeared. Appeared and vanished, bearing on her head Her earthen piLcher . p . 35Z. Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! Yet wert thou...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. P^ESTUM. (" From Italy.") THEY stand between the mountains and the sea; Awful memorials, but of whom... | |
 | Charles Smith Cheltnam - 1863 - 176 pages
...pretty lines of Eogers's :— TO A BUTTERFLY. " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingle with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And where...cell of clay To burst a seraph, in the blaze of day ! " THS RED ADMIRAL. THE SILVER-SPOTTED FRITILLARY. CHAPTEE VII. I PICK UP A NUT WITH A HOLE IN IT—BOB'S... | |
 | Months - English poetry - 1864 - 262 pages
...darksome grave, And thy soft petals' silvery light In the mild breeze unfettered wave. THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the Sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...cell of clay To burst a Seraph in the blaze of day ! HYMN FOR JUNE. "7 HYMN FOR JUNE. : He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."— I John... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...her thou lov'st in fields of light; and where the flowers of Paradise unfold, quaff fragrant neclar from their cups of gold: there shall thy wings, rich...cell of clay to burst a seraph in the blaze of day! S. ROGERS O THE SONS OF HOLLAND METHINKS her patient sons before me stand, where the broad ocean leans... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...fields of light ; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, QuafF fragrant nectar from their cupj of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening...from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze ot day. We might cull many pearls of thought from this poet, but we have only space for the following... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 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." 1. A celestial spirit. . 2. A city of China. 3. The edict of an Emperor. 4. A fashionable small ship.... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...needs ; the chrysalis as the rest in death; the soaring winged insect as the rising from the tomb — " Once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." — I MAY 18iH. THE CELANDINE. — (Ghelidonium mnjus.) A VERY curious and unaccountable notion prevailed... | |
 | 1867 - 432 pages
...a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth ; then wrought a tomb and slept : And such is man ; so from his cell of clay • To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! " EJS CLIFFORD. INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS. BORLASE says he saw a lobster attack an oyster, who persisted... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pages
...fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm ; a thing...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. ' jO insect conveys to us so happy an idea of innocent pleasure and idle enjoyment as does the moth... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...cups of gold : There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy I Yet wert thou once a worm — a thing that crept On...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! Wonderful indeed are the transformations which many insects must undergo ere they arrive at maturity.... | |
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