 | Cheshire (England) - 1877 - 236 pages
...night Doth like an CEthiop bride appenre. My eoule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shootes forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1877 - 234 pages
...large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shootes forth no flame So silent, but is eloqnent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a charactcr, Remov'd far from our humane sight : But if we stedfast looke, Wo shall discerne In it as... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1877 - 240 pages
...night Doth like an CEthiop bride appeare. My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, TV Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shootes forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - English language - 1878 - 124 pages
...unconcerned The cheerful haunts of men, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...soul her wings doth spread, And heavenward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. Who steals my purse steals trash... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...And makes the cozen'd fancy glow ; Chaste virtue's only true and fair. NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light, . Into so small a character, Remov'd far from our human sight, But if we steadfast look It tells the conqueror, That... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...And makes the cozen'd fancy glow ; Chaste virtue's only true and fair. NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light, Into so small a character, Remov'd far from our human sight, But if we steadfast look It tells the conqueror, That... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...spheres, yes, and to angel's lays. HABINGTON'S poem on The Firmament opens wit.i these grand lines : — When I survey the bright celestial sphere, So rich...mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. The grave and eccentric QUARLES has written some remarkable P°«ms, equally quaint in conceit and.... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...bloody method and behaviour Their ancestors did crucify our Saviour. LXIV. WILLIAM THE riBMAilEXT. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. Xo unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character Removed far from our human sight :... | |
 | Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...the furthest insight into nature have been in all ages firm believers in GOD. Rev. Professor WltevxU. When I survey the bright Celestial sphere So rich...no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the CKEATOB'S Name. No unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character, Removed far from... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...the ' Selections ' below, we copy some verses entitled — ' NOX NOCTI OTDICAT SCIENTIAM.' — David, When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volume of the skies ; For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In... | |
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WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament... 
