How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting... Sacred Poetry - Sida 1391854 - 236 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Burris Jenkins - 1925 - 248 sidor
...do the bidding of their Lord. Edmund Spenser, in the Faerie Queene has dainty lines regarding them : "How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant, Against f owle f eendes to ayd us militant ! They for us fight, they... | |
| Robert Haven Schauffler - 1925 - 490 sidor
...sun,— To your face — with its wrinkled smile And its fun. THE MINISTERING SPIRITS BY EDMUND SPENSER How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come...us that succour want! , How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant!... | |
| Walker Gwynne - 1915 - 168 sidor
...Edmund Spenser writes: "How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us that succor want, How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us mill taut 1 They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us... | |
| Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 sidor
...that succeeds opens with an angel hovering over him, and the general thought of angelic ministration: How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come...us that succour want! How oft do they with golden pineons cleave The flitting skyes, like flying Pursuivant, Against fowle feendes to aid us militant... | |
| 1851 - 644 sidor
...the river hall, one * How oft cio they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us. that sucenr want ! How oft do they, with golden pinions cleave...aid' us, militant! They for us fight ; they watch and dewly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love, and nothing for reward... | |
| Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 sidor
...Dan. vii. 10 ; Matt. xxvi. 53 ; Heb. xii. 22 ; Luke ii. 13. * Matt. vi. 10. * if Matt, xviii. 10. ' How oft do they their silver bowers leave, ' To come...'And their bright squadrons round about us plant, men 1 : in the countenance of whose nature, looking down- BOOK I. ward, they behold themselves beneath... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 2000 - 808 sidor
...imagery and sentiment: — "How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succor us, that succor want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...They for us fight they watch and duly ward, And their hright squadrons round about us plant. And all for love and nothing for reward; Oh! why should heavenly... | |
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