TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art : Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. The Saturday Magazine ... - Page 591833Full view - About this book
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...with such wo, As if her spirit watched him still below. TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, fnat ftill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud...alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 250 pages
...with such wo, As if her spirit watched him still below. TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that flill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud...alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...with such wo, As if her spirit watched him still below. TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud...as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given Tor happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...ance can only last whilst the drops which fall are succeeded by others. Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seen, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth... | |
| American periodicals - 1821 - 370 pages
...during their very long conSnement. TO THfi RAINBOW. Sy Thomas Campbell. Triumphal arch, that fillsst the sky, When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what thou artStill seem as to my childhood's sight A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwiit... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...straggling bands Returning homeward from the house of prayer. THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud...optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dream'd of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow? When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...with devotion,— Erin mavourain— Erin go bragh!" * TO THE RAINBOW. TKIUMPHAI, arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part ! I ask not proud...Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when 1 dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's... | |
| Selina Martin - Children - 1832 - 242 pages
...sight like an emerald." represented as surround i of his covenant. 8 a " Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud...happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven." This beautiful arch, Georgiana, is sometimes doubly or trebly reflected, the interior bow being the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...with such wo, As if her spirit watched him still below. TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud...alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that optic teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant... | |
| Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...with which are made candles, ointments, and plasters. TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To teach me what them art. Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight... | |
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