 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
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...ecslary! — Vet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On ihe bare earth, then wroLght a lomb nnd slept And such is man : soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1800.1 WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, '»¡'ha sigh,... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...blessed by the beautiful Houris in Mahomet's paradise. ' In that awful moment, when the spirit is " Soon from his cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day," *he mind is prone to yield to those feelings, which it might, perhaps, in the turmoil of the living... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1833 - 300 pages
...mean type of man as a mortal and immortal being. This ' Child of the Sun,' as a Poet terms it, ' Was once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day !' But amidst the numerous objects which might engage our minds at this season, the hay-field must... | |
 | Sermons - 1834 - 740 pages
...brightly, wafted lightly," should lift you above the difficulties of your Christian creed. Yep, that was once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...slept : And such is man, soon from his cell of clay To bunt, * seraph, in the blaze of day. So much for the illustration of the language of our text, and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 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! WUITTKN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SKPTKMBER 2, 1812. BLUE was the loch, the clouds were gone, Ben-Lomond... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 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! Night fell ; and dark and darker grew That narrow sea, that narrow sky, As o'er the glimmering waves... | |
 | Richard Laurence - Eschatology - 1834 - 158 pages
...concluding1 lines of the same quotation, making some allowance for a little poetical embellishment. " And such is man, soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." On the whole, therefore, as nothing in the material world is annihilated, but simply by decomposition... | |
 | John White - Welsh language - 1835 - 170 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. A MOTHER'S INJUNCTION ON PRESENTING HER SON WITH A BIBLE. Remember, love, who gave thee this, When... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare eurth, then wrought a tomb and slept I , And such is m1m, soon from his cell of clay. To burst a seraph in the blaze of day 1"• .The ancients, unaided by the blessed and glorious dawn of Christian revelation, were evidently... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...destination. The classic Rogers, in his elegant address to the " Papillon," has embodied this idea : — " Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept " On...cell of clay, " To burst a seraph in the blaze of day !"* The ancients, unaided by the blessed and glorious dawn of christian revelation, "were evidently... | |
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