 | William Russell - 1845 - 380 sidor
...scene ! The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star; The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ;...this, at such an hour, (If ancestry can be in aught believed,) Descending spirits have conversed with man. And told the secrets of the world unknown."... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 336 sidor
...scene ! The silver moon unclouded holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ;...a place as this, at such an hour, — If ancestry may be in aught believed, — Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 331 sidor
...scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence with a shrilly sound. — In such a place as this, at such an hour, (If ancestry can be in aught believed,) Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown. GAYETY,... | |
 | 1845
...scarcely fail to arise of an exigence aftei death. The pages of history attest the fact that : — " If ancestry can be in aught believ'd, Descending spirits have convers'd with man, And told him secrets of the world unknown." And il is evident the human mind has invariably clung to such notions,... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 331 sidor
...unclouded, holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star; The fanning west-wind scarcely stirs the leaves; The river rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence with a shrilly sound. — In such a place as this, at such an hour, (If ancestry can be in aught believed,)... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 357 sidor
...unclouded, holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star; The fanning west-wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence with a shrilly sound.— In such a place as this, at such an hour, (If ancestry can be in aught believed,)... | |
 | 1847 - 300 sidor
...scene ! The silver moon unclouded holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star ; The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ;...a place as this, at such an hour, — If ancestry may be in aught believed, — Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the... | |
 | William Russell - 1849
...scene ! The silver moon unclouded holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star ; The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ;...a place as this, at such an hour, — If ancestry may be in aught believed, — Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 294 sidor
...scene ! The silver moon unclouded holds her way Through skies where I could count each little star ; The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ;...a place as this, at such an hour, — If ancestry may be in aught believed, — Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849
...churchyards yawn, and hell itself bieathes out Contagion to the world." Thus also in Home's Douglas : " In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry...with man. And told the secrets of the world unknown." Gay has left us a pretty tale of an apparition. The golden mark being found in bed is indeed after... | |
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This is the place, the centre of the grove ; Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight scene The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind... 
