 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
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1887 - 270 pages
...wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy. Yet, wert thou once a worm,—a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a...cell of clay To burst, a seraph, in the blaze of day. TIME. Time moveth not! our being 'tis that moves ; And we, swift gliding down life's rapid stream,... | |
 | Kate R. Lovell - Insects - 1890 - 296 pages
...of being almost choked and smothered with doubts and fears, springs eternal in the human breast. " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." PRINTED BY CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, LA BELLE SAUVAGK, LONDON, EC ... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Christian art and symbolism - 1892 - 246 pages
...once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb, and slept. And such is man 1 soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." In some few Greek examples the butterfly is represented hovering over the dead, and in comparatively... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...rich as an evening sky. Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Vet wert thou once a worm, a tiling that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clayTo burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! S.4MI-KT. RlXiKKS. OX THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET. THE... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 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 ! THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY. '79»SAMUEL ROGERS. I. OPENING LTNES. P-ART I. 'TWILIGHT'S soft dews steal... | |
 | Charles Henry Barrows - 1906 - 274 pages
...larger scope, carrying with it the same life principle which it has inherited from the great past." 1 " Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! " 2 It is interesting to observe how clearly the character of Jesus, as it appears in the postresurrection... | |
 | 1859 - 754 pages
...their cups of gold. Here 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." 8. Room. Observe that little honey-gathering bee — how actively employed it is collecting honey from... | |
 | 1857 - 732 pages
...am sure his own MOKAL, had his heart been, at the time, as was mine. "Yet wer't thou once a worm, * thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a...soon from his cell of clay, To burst a seraph In the Maze of day." At length we readied the village, which in itself consists only of some eight or ten... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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 I S. Rogers I3I- The Lily and the Rose "THE Nymph must lose her female friend, If more admired than... | |
 | Johnson Brigham - Bankers - 1910 - 306 pages
...their 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. J. ). Cade Sir JOHN LUBBOCK (Lord Avebury) Banker, Scientist and Essayist THE LUBBOCKS 1803— ONE... | |
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