 But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.  The Warner Library - Page 15259edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...I left my glorious train; From whence th' enlighten'd spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees ; \ But, ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE STORM. I SEE J,he use ; and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Yet have... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...I left my glorious train; From whence th' enlighten 'd spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees ; But, ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE STORM. I SEE the use ; and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Though red... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...my glorious train ; From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees; But, oh! my soul, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. THE RAINBOW. STILL young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soiled, though fresh... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 318 pages
...fpirit fees That fhady City of Palme trees. But ah ! my foul .with too much ftay Is drunk, and ftaggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward fteps would move ; And when this diift falls to the urn, In that ftate I came return. f Ome, come !... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 316 pages
...fpirit fees That fhady City of Palme trees. But ah ! my foul with too much ftay Is drunk, and ftaggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward fteps would move ; And when this duft falls to the urn, In that ftate I came return. f Ome, come !... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...glorious train ; From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees ; But, oh ! my soul, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. CHILDHOOD. I CANNOT reach it ; and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that Chronicle... | |
 | 1850 - 560 pages
...glorious train; From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees; Bat, oh ! my sonl, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers in the...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. Heary Vaughan,—died in 1695. GLASS-WINDOWS began to be used in private houses in England, AD 1180:... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...throws its own colour over all his poetry, and gives its characteristic and peculiar moral value. ' Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; — ' says Jlenry Vaughan, an old poet, who shows a singular affinity of thought on this subject... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Religious poetry, American - 1853 - 604 pages
...glorious train ; From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm-trees ; But, oh ! my soul, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers in the way. J Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English poetry - 1856 - 330 pages
...sinne to ev'ry sence, But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse. ii 0 how I long to travell back, \ And tread again that...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. COME, COMB. I. COME, come ! what doe I here ? Since he is gone Each day is grown a dozen year, And... | |
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