twixt two houris fair, Thou stand'st between the evening and the morn ? I took thee for an angel, but have wooed A cacodajmon in mine ignorant mood. Jephthah's Daughter - Page xvby Charles Heavysege - 1865 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...Shakespearian form, though even in his powerful " Night" — the sonnet that contains the lovely quatrain, — Oh, Night, art thou so grim, when, black and bare...adorn, Like a nude Ethiop "twixt two houris fair Thou stand's! between the Evening and the Morn — he confuses the rhyming terminals of the second and third... | |
| 1879 - 690 pages
...explore, E'en to the frontiers of the ebon air ; But cannot, though I strive, discover more Than what ois one huge cavern of despair. Oh, Night, art thou so...and bare Of moonbeams, and no cloudlets to adorn, Jake a nude Kthiop 'twixt two houris fair, Thou stand'st between the evening and the morn? I took thee... | |
| Theodore Harding Rand - Canadian poetry - 1900 - 446 pages
...seen ; Stir up thy brood, that in unrest Are ever piping keen. Ah ! what a motley multitude — NIGHT "T^IS solemn darkness ; the sublime of shade ; •*•...fair, Thou stand'st between the evening and the morn ? I took thee for an angel, but have wooed A cacodajmon in mine ignorant mood. THE COMING OF THE MORN... | |
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