| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 páginas
...the sun, Thou 'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven... | |
| Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 páginas
...the sun, Thou 'It find me dressed, and on my way, Watching the break of thy great day. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 páginas
...looks upon thee from his glorious throne, And minds the covenant betwixt all and one. THE WORLD. I SAW eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright: And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driven... | |
| 1849 - 608 páginas
...quarter from whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. " THE WORLD. " / saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, yearn, Driv'n... | |
| 1907 - 516 páginas
...hunain a barodd i Henry Vaughan, y Siluriad, draethu ei len yn y geiriau hynod hynny o'i eiddo : I saw eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright ; And round beneath it. Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...cares without thee ; let the heart Be God's alone, and choose the better part. VAUGHAN. THE WORLD. I SAW Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven... | |
| James Montgomery, John Holland - 1856 - 350 páginas
...Understand it if you can ; if not, turn for an example to ' The World,' in Cattermole's Selections : — ' I saw Eternity, the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright !' There is nothing in poetry more perfect in its kind than... | |
| HODGES - 1856 - 780 páginas
...land." He then quotes a few fanciful lines with such praise as will probably surprise most readers:— I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright. " There is," says Montgomery, "nothing more perfect iu its... | |
| HODGES - 1856 - 780 páginas
...He then quotes a few fanciful lines with such praise as will probably surprise most readers : — I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, As calm as it was bright. entranced in Beatific Vision. Eter nity was never made so... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 páginas
...Without a steel, oh, let thy power clear Thy gift once more, and grind this flint to dust! THE WORLD. 1 I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driven... | |
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