A midsummer day's dream, a poemBaldwin & Company, 1824 - 173 pàgines |
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abyss airy anon appear'd awful awhile beauteous beautiful behold beneath blazing blue breath bright clouds crystal crystal mountains dark dazzling deep delicate delight depths dome DREAM CONTINUED earth earthly epicure eternal ethereal natures fire firmament flew floating flowers fragrant gaze gentle glittering glorious glow grew harps hath heard heaven hills hour hues huge immense light look look'd louder majestic methought mighty moon morn mountains Myriads night noon nought o'er ocean pass'd pause perfume pole to pole primal elements pure quivering radiant rapture Reason sleeps rest Right opposite rock round ruby sails sank sapphire seem'd shapes sight silence sleep slumber soft Son of Ether sounds space spake Spirit splendour stars stood sublime summer's sunbeams sweet tempest temple thee thine eye Thou hast beheld thou mayst thousand thunders tint trumpets turn'd Twas vales vast voice waters waves winds
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Pàgina 70 - The desolation of friends' eyes averse, Nay, e'en the anguish of a recent loss, Akin to what was felt beneath the Cross. All the Year Round : Sonnets on Godsends. O! it is beautiful to see this world, Poised in the crystal air, with all its seas, Mountains, and plains, majestically rolling Around its noiseless axis...
Pàgina 5 - On either hand, the broad, curved beach stretched on ; And I could see the slow-paced waves advance One after one, and spread upon the sands, Making a slender edge of pearly foam Just as they broke; then softly falling back, Noiseless to me on that tall head of rock As it had been a picture, or descried Through optic tube, leagues off. A tender mist Was round th...
Pàgina 5 - twere conscious of the splendid guest That e'en then touched the threshold of heaven's gates, And smiled to bid him welcome. Far away, On either hand, the broad-curved beach stretched on ; And I could see the slow-paced waves advance One after one, and spread upon the sands, Making a slender edge of pearly foam Just as they broke ; then softly falling back, Noiseless to me on that tall head of rock, As it had been a picture, clear descried Through optic tube, leagues off. A tender mist Was round...
Pàgina 138 - Creator—of all nature Lord— The Omnipresent, everlasting God— The One Pure Spirit. He bade the sun arise from the deep void Of long-enduring night, and circled it With clouds of living fire. He also made The lesser worlds that in their orbits move Unerringly around. The abyss of space He spread out with his hands, and set therein Th' innumerable multitude of stars.
Pàgina 5 - Was round th' horizon and along the vales; But the hill tops stood in a crystal air; The cope of heaven was clear and deeply blue, And not a cloud was visible. Toward the east An atmosphere of golden light, that grew Momently brighter, and intensely bright, Proclaimed th
Pàgina 6 - Proclaim'd the approaching sun. Now — now he comes: — A dazzling point emerges from the sea ; It spreads ; — it rises : — now it seems a dome Of burning gold : — higher and rounder now It mounts — it swells : — now like a huge balloon Of light and fire, it rests upon the rim Of waters ; lingers there a moment ; — then — Soars up.
Pàgina 38 - Have many such; your fellow-planets too That roll like yours round yon magnificent sun : — He also hath ethereal ministers That do his errands here and through all space, Subjected to his influence. One of these I am. ' " To us, whose purer elements Are all unfetter'd by gross matter, time And space are nought, or almost nought; for we Are not ethereal quite. That highest Spirit Whom tue name not, but, thinking of, bow down, — That Highest One alone is spirit pure.
Pàgina 7 - ... that lived Look'd like a new creation, over-fill'd With health and joy; nay, ev'n the inanimate earth Seem'd coming into life. But glorious far Beyond all else the mighty God of light Mounting the crystal firmament: no eye May look upon his overwhelming pomp: Power and majesty attend his steps; Ocean and earth adoring gaze on him:— In lone magnificence he takes his way Through the bright solitude of heaven. The sea . Was clear and purely blue, save the broad path Where the sunbeams danc'd on...
Pàgina 6 - ... lingers there a moment; — then — Soars up — Exulting I stretch'd forth my arms, And hail'd the king of summer. Every hill Put on a face of gladness ; every tree Shook his green leaves in joy : the meadows laugh'd ; The deep glen, where it caught the amber beams, Began to draw its misty veil aside, And smile and glisten through its pearly tear. The birds struck up their chorus ; the young lambs Scour'd over hill and meadow ; — all that lived Look'd like a new creation, over-fill'd With...