 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
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...fragrant nectai 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...slept : And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay, It burst a seraph in the blaze of day. — ROGERS. 311—2 THE PHILOSOPHERS' STONE. No. I. WHEN speaking... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...lustre. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lovest n Aikin ! * At Woburn Abbey. WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1806.* WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and,... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...Expand and shut with silent eestasy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept '1> the hare Scotland's Me, That bears the name o' Auld King coil,...day in June, When wearing through the afternoon, Tw ! s At Woburn Abbey. WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. • OCTORER l0, IS06.s WHGE'ER thou art, approach,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Boys - 1839 - 194 pages
...earth, but, with plumed pinion, to join the angelic band, and wing his flight to the throne of God. " Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the...cell of clay, To burst a seraph in the blaze of day." He who has seen the resurrection of the butterfly from the tomb of the caterpillar ; who has seen this... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 510 pages
...gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecslacy! — Yet wcrt thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1806.' WHOE'ER Ihou art, approach, and, wilh a sigh, Mark... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 60 pages
...tomb and slept. WHEN by the green-wood side, at summer eve, \ Poetic visions charm my closing eve;. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day. And fairy-scenes, that fancy loves 'to weave, , Shift to wild notes of sweetest minstrelsv ; 'Tis thine... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Heaven, TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lovest in fields of light ; And, where the flowers of Paradise...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1766. TINTERN ABBEY. FIVE years have past ; five summers, with the length Of... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thmg that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WILLIAM WORDSWOBTH. 1766. TINTERN A8BE7. FIVE years have past ; five summers, with the length Of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 360 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 ! WRITTEN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1812. BLUE was the loch, the clouds were gone,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 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 ! WRITTEN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 181*2. BLUE was the loch, the clouds were gone,... | |
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