 Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at...  Sketch-book of Popular Geology - Page 147by Hugh Miller - 1872 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 392 pages
...Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. f Richardson thinks that Syria had its name from Suri, a And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON...in a vale of flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 366 pages
...— From Chateaubriand's Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | W. Patison Hunter - Egypt - 1842 - 334 pages
...proposed further digression UPON LEBANON AND ITS TRIBES. Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, Whiten'd with eternal sleet ; While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping, rosy, at its feet. It would afford us no small interest, did it come within our province to trace, even in outline,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...in !" Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Ere reposes, And, like a glory, the hroad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet To one, who lookM from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Edward Hungerford D. Elers Napier - Palestine - 1843 - 376 pages
...religious." CHAP. IV. MOUNT LEBANON AND ITS TRIBES. " Its head in wintry grandeur towers, Whiten'd with eternal sleet ; While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at its feet." — MOORE. " Mount Lebanon," saith the Arab bard, " has Summer at its breast, Autumn sleeping... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...in !" Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of EVE reposes, And, like a glory, the hroad sun Hangs, over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upp%r air O'er all th* enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 568 pages
...its mass into other valleys yet lower. It is not a frozen * Mr. Moore sings of Eastern Alps, — ' Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens...summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at their feet.' There is, however, no tleet upon the cxlremest heights of any Alpine mountains, where... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 698 pages
...down its mass into other valleys yet lower. It is not a frozen * Mr. Moore sings of Eastern Alps,— ' Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens...summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at their feet.' There is, however, no fleet upon the ex(remes! heights of any Alpine mountains, where... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
..."Paradise and the Peri." MOORE. Now, upon Syria's land of roses, Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who looked from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of EVE reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangb over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
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