 Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back — at that short space — Could see a glimpse...  The Hope of the Gospel - Página 54por George MacDonald - 1892 - 242 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1850 - 544 páginas
...early youth. Nothing that he was afterwards called upon to witness or mingle with, entirely Before 1 understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first love;... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 páginas
...suggested by Henry Vaughan's poem of the " Retreate," beginning— " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy! Before I understood this place...soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence.... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 300 páginas
...their benediction and their appeal. XVII. Ilnppy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 324 páginas
...benediction and their appeal. XVII. tat Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to funcy augiit But a white celestial thought ; When yet I Imd not walked above A mile or two from my... | |
 | 1856 - 598 páginas
...experience of another poet, Samuel Rogers. " The Retreate. " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place...race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial! thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back,... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 páginas
...missed the tree so long. ROBEBT POLLOK. TTAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place, Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought -, When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - 312 páginas
...childhood," entitled, " The Retreat:" •' Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel infancy ! Before I understood this place, Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love,... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 páginas
...suggested by Henry Vaughan's poem of the "Retreate," beginning — " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place...soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence.... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 páginas
...suggested by Henry Vaughan's poem of the " Retreate," beginning— " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place...soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our nature after a lost purity and innocence.... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 páginas
...this passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early dayes, when I Shin'd in my Angell-infancy 1 Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, Celestial! thought; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back,... | |
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