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" Nor soil'd by ruder breath ? . Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast ? Or, when the summer sun goes down, The first soft star in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ? Fondly we seek the dawning bloom On features wan and fair,... "
The Rose: Its History, Poetry, Culture, and Classification - Page 70
by Samuel Bowne Parsons - 1847 - 280 pages
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Thomas À Kempis and the Brothers of the Common Life, Volume 1

Samuel Kettlewell - 1882 - 480 pages
...close she veils her round, Not to be trac'd by sight or sound, Nor soiled by ruder breath ? Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast...star in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ? But there's a sweeter flower than e'er Blush'd on the rosy spray— A brighter star, a richer bloom...
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the onthly packet of evening reading

Charlotte M. Yonge - 1884 - 616 pages
...vanished? None ever saw that star appear —we are looking for it— and lo! it is there. ' Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast...star in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ?' We are accustomed to call this ' the Evening Star.' Those of us who are up before the sun have similarly...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1884 - 614 pages
...vanished? None ever saw that star appear,— we are looking for it— and lo ! it is there. ' Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast...The first soft star in evening's crown Light up her gloaming crest ?' We are accustomed to call this ' the Evening Star.' Those of us who are up before...
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The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays ...

John Keble - 1885 - 378 pages
...close she veils her round. Not to be trac'd by sight or sound, Nor soil'd by ruder breath ? Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast...Or, when the summer sun goes down, The first soft stai in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ? Fondly we seek the dawning bloom On features...
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A Library of Religious Poetry: A Collection of the Best Poems of All Ages ...

Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Religious poetry - 1885 - 1148 pages
...close she veils her round, Not to be traced by sight or sound, Nor soiled by ruder breath ? Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast? Or, when the summer sun goes clown, The first soft star in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ? Fondly we seek the dawning...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 586 pages
...unity (1. 28). Readers cf the Christian Ytar will be reminded by 71 of the lines 11 Whoever saw .... Or, when the summer sun goes down, The first soft...star in Evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ? " — +tk Sun. ix Lint. Anon mine eyes, restored to vision keen, Looked up, and now I saw we were...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere ...

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 594 pages
...unity (1. 28). Readers of the Christian Year will be reminded by I. 71 of the lines " Whoever saw .... Or, when the summer sun goes down, The first soft...star in Evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest?" — 4//1 Sun. in Lent. This is the la«t vision in the sphere of the sun. From this — Beatrice increasing...
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An Introduction to Latin Lyric Verse Composition

Joseph Hirst Lupton - Latin language - 1888 - 194 pages
...or sound, Nor soil'd by ruder breath. Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast 1 Or, when the summer sun goes down, The first soft...star in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest ? But there's a sweeter flower than e'er Blush'd on the rosy spray — A brighter star, a richer bloom,...
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The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - Christian poetry, English - 1889 - 394 pages
...close she veils her round, Not to be traced by sight or sound, Nor soil'd by ruder breath? Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast?...no change can trace, But look away a little space, Then turn, and lo ! 'tis there. But there 'sa sweeter flower than e'er Blush'd on the rosy spray —...
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The Literature of the Second Century: Short Studies in Christian Evidences

Frederick Richards Wynne, John Henry Bernard, Samuel Hemphill - Apologetics - 1891 - 288 pages
...should have looked for. It is hard to describe the first beginnings of the New Testament. " Who ever saw the earliest rose First open her sweet breast?...star in evening's crown Light up her gleaming crest?" So appeared that flower which has filled the earth with its fragrance, that star which has guided upwards...
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