 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 sidor
...never-withering flowers, * * * * Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, &c. We all came into the world for something ; we shall...our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet,... | |
 | 1847 - 402 sidor
...Coleridge (Vol. I., p. 439) calls "the finest and most grandly conceived in the English language." "Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ?... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sidor
...prying fingers of detective years Shall drag thy secret out into the light. BLANCO WHITE. TO NIGHT. MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heart! thy name; Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue?... | |
 | 1861 - 716 sidor
...White. For beauty and sublimity, whether of imagery, language, or thought, what sonnet is its superior ? Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ?... | |
 | 1841 - 508 sidor
...and the tears of mortal grief for ever wiped away. SONNET. By JOSEPH BLANCO WHITS. Night and Death. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from Report divine, and heard thy Name, Did he not tremble for this lovely Frame, This glorious Canopy of Light and Blue ?... | |
 | 1841 - 500 sidor
...and the tears of mortal grief for ever wiped away. SONNET. BY JOSBPH BLANCO WHITS. Night and Death. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from Report divine, and heard thy Name, Did he not tremble for this lovely Frame, This glorious Canopy of Light and Blue ?... | |
 | 1897 - 918 sidor
...language." and apparently It was the only moment of poetic inspiration in his life. The sonnet is called Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 504 sidor
...my Sonnet on Night and Death for a friend, I have made some corrections. It is now as follows : — Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely Frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue ?... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 sidor
...correspondence. The following noble Sonnet will vindicate his title to the possession of poetic genius : " Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue •... | |
 | 1845 - 880 sidor
...correspondence. The following noble Sonnet will vindicate his title to the possession of poetic genius : " Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of Light and Blue r... | |
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Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, . Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting... 
