 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 pages
...shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. II. The Evening Cloud. A cloud lay cradled near the setting...still radiance of the lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow ! Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - Great Britain - 1873 - 478 pages
...poet's gaze is rapt there awhile ; — and now let us read the sonnet he has just composed on that EVENING CLOUD. A cloud lay cradled near the setting...below : Tranquil its spirit seem'd, and floated slow ; Ev'n in its very motion there was rest, While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 560 pages
...known abode, To earth some spirits bow in cold affright, But some they lift to glory and to God. LXII. THE EVENING CLOUD. A cloud lay cradled near the setting...still radiance of the Lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow .' Even in its very motion there was rest : While every breath of eve that... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...with most strange delight On the calm slumbers of the dead man's night. JOHN WILSON, i 1785—1854. THE EVENING CLOUD. A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting...still radiance of the Lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow ; Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...cloud lay cradled near tha setting sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow : Long had I wateh'd An awful pause '. prophetic ita spirit eeem'd, and floated slow ! Even in its very motion there was rest : While every breath of... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...souls a chord of that melodious harmony which underlies the Divine plan of existence. JOHN J A> rn:. THE EVENING CLOUD. A cloud lay cradled near the setting...still radiance of the lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow ! Even in its very motion, there was rest, While every breath of eve that chanced... | |
 | John Wilson - 1874 - 586 pages
...earth some spirits bow in cold affright, But some they lift to glory and to God. THE EVENING-CLOUD. A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam...still radiance of the Lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow ! Even in its very motion there was rest: While every breath of eve that chanced... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - Bible - 1874 - 732 pages
...dividing 1 CHAPTER XX. „>_ ABRAHAMS DEATH. ESAU AND JACOB BORN. — THE PROMISE RENEWED TO ISAAC. A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam...still radiance of the lake below: Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow, E'en in its very motion there was rest, While every breath of eve that chanced... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...lay cradled near the setting sun : A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow. Long had I watched its glory moving on O'er the still radiance of the lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow, Even in its very motion there was rest, And every breath of eve that chanced... | |
 | Seven years - 1874 - 284 pages
...sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow ; Long had I watched the glory moving on O'er the calm radiance of the lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seem'd, and floated slow ; E'en in the very motion there was rest : While every breath of eve which chanced to blow, Wafted... | |
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Even in its very motion there was rest : While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous West. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul ! To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given ; And by the breath of mercy... 
