Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought, When yet I had not walked above A mile or two, from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse... Lives of Sacred Poets - Sida 245efter Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 363 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1850 - 560 sidor
...reaches heaven, and conveys :he soul so qualified into the mansions of eternal glory."— Dr. South. THE RETREAT. Happy those early days, when I Shined...understood this place, Appointed for my second race; Or tanght my soul to fancy aught Bnt a white celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile... | |
| 1850 - 544 sidor
...early youth. Nothing that he was afterwards called upon to witness or mingle with, entirely Before 1 understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first love;... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1853 - 604 sidor
...story ; A taste of heaven on earth ; the pledge and cue Of a full feast, and the out-courts of glory. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1856 - 330 sidor
...gladly dye." THE RETREATE. 1 HAPPY those early dayes, when I I Shin'd in my angell-infancy ! |_Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 sidor
...poem of the " Betreate," beginning — " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost... | |
| Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 300 sidor
...and peace meet in their benediction and their appeal. XVII. Ilnppy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love... | |
| Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 324 sidor
...and peace meet in their benediction and their appeal. XVII. tat Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to funcy augiit But a white celestial thought ; When yet I Imd not walked above A mile or two from my... | |
| 1856 - 598 sidor
...poet, Samuel Rogers. " The Retreate. " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...But a white, celestial! thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse... | |
| Songs - 1856 - 712 sidor
...up before him suddenly displayed ; So wondered why he missed the tree so long. ROBEBT POLLOK. TTAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought -, When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - 312 sidor
...childhood," entitled, " The Retreat:" •' Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel infancy ! Before I understood this place, Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love,... | |
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