 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 408 sidor
...each bestows ; There is no PRESENT to a hope sublime ; Man has eternity, and Nations time ! PART IV. ' Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me.' — Paradise Lost, book iii. ' Though fall'n on evil days, In darkness, and with danger compass' d... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 sidor
...and blind Mseonides, ! And Tiresias and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men . Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 sidor
...the human mind we possess. How splendid is his Invocation to Light — how touchingly it closes ! — Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1866 - 472 sidor
...exactly describes that which I have endeavoured, in feeble language, to paint. Milton says : — ' Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...Surrounds me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 sidor
...piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 sidor
...That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...Surrounds me ! from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 sidor
...Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 sidor
...wash thy hallow' d feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...Surrounds me ! from the cheerful ways of men Cut off ; and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1867 - 236 sidor
...and blind Mseonides, And Tiresias and Pbineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me. L. 1, 2. Turn by 'nor less, wandering, I traverse places dear to the Muses ' (Camoanse). Cf. Lucret.... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 426 sidor
...Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Sings...ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Out off, and, for the book of knowledge fair. Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to... | |
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Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark... 
