 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ЫЕКВУ WAMWOBTH LONOFELLOW. NIGHT. sin ; Let the healing streams abound ; Make and keep...heart! Rise to all eternity ! CUABLKS WESLEY-. How SWEE volume of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent but is eloquent In speaking... | |
 | Bible - 1881 - 624 pages
...glorious voice. For ever singing, as they shine, 'The Hand that made us" is divine.' " Addison. — "The bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's Name." Habington. 5-6 "Proceeding from His chamber free, The royal hall of chastity, Giant of twofold substance,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...it leads to interesting thought and Tcflection."—Bazlitt. THE FIRMAMENT.! WHEN I survey the bright So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear, Celestial sphere, My soul her wings doth spread, And heavenward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me. THOMAS MOORE. 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 speaking... | |
 | Samuel Rowles Pattison - Ecclesiastical geography - 1882 - 200 pages
...entitled, Night showeth Knowledge, is a specially fine expression of the psalmist's thoughts. It begins : When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear. Hingham, Norfolk. — Robert Peek, the vicar here in the days of Charles the First, distinguished himself... | |
 | Frederick Bryon Norman - 1883 - 162 pages
...heaveu) means belonging to heaven ; pertaining to the phenomena of the heavens, to heaven itself. Ex.: When I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. Heavenly (AS heofan, heaveu — hef'an, to heave, lift up, raise) refers to what is pure, exalted,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...pure thoughts to heaven fly : 40 All her vows religious be, And her love she vows to me. STARLIGHT. When I survey the. bright Celestial sphere, So rich...My soul her wings doth spread And heavenward flies, Th' Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots... | |
 | 1925 - 1044 pages
...HPHE question also is, when is the ^ younger generation coming to? Nox Nodi Indicat — •W7HEN 1 survey the bright Celestial sphere : So rich with...hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear; To see such waste, I wot I am struck dumb Tbat such a great display should not .Be advertising chewing... | |
 | English sacred lyrics - Christian poetry - 1884 - 296 pages
...My life may mend, sith I must die. WILLIAM HABINGTON. XXXIX. born 1605. NOX NOCTI INDICAT SCIENTIAM. WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere, So rich...unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character, Removed far from our human sight, But if we steadfast look, We shall discern In it as 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... 
