 Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting...  Mosaics of Human Life - Page 304by Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 305 lehteFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 lehte
...starlight, we lose our consciousness of the terrestrial in the superber consciousness of the universal. Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for his lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet, 'neath a curtain of translucent dew>... | |
 | 1847 - 402 lehte
...Coleridge (Vol. I., p. 439) calls "the finest and most grandly conceived in the English language." "Mysterious Night ! when our first parent knew Thee,...setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo! creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within... | |
 | 1828 - 398 lehte
...friend, Joseph Blanco White. MYSTERIOUS night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo ! creation widened on his view ! Who could have thought what darkness lay concealed Within thy... | |
 | 1828 - 404 lehte
...friend, Joseph Blauco White. MYSTERIOUS night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely...dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperu.^, with the host of heaven, came, And lo ! creation widened on his view ! Who could have thought... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 lehte
...prying fingers of detective years Shall drag thy secret out into the light. BLANCO WHITE. TO NIGHT. MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heart! thy name; Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue?... | |
 | 1835 - 736 lehte
...again. SONNET. NIGHT AND DEATH. Mysterious Night, when the first man but knew Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name. Did he not tremble for this lovely...setting flame, Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came. And lo ! — Creation widened on his view ! Who could have thought what darkness lay conceal'd Within... | |
 | 1847 - 608 lehte
...the finest and most grandly conceived in our language: — " Mysterions Night! when our first parents knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name,...lovely frame—- This glorious canopy of light and blue J Yet 'ueath a cnrreni of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus... | |
 | 1841 - 508 lehte
...and the tears of mortal grief for ever wiped away. SONNET. By JOSEPH BLANCO WHITS. Night and Death. Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee,...setting Flame, Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came, And lo ! Creation widened in Man's view. Who could have thought such Darkness lay concealed Within... | |
 | 1861 - 716 lehte
...White. For beauty and sublimity, whether of imagery, language, or thought, what sonnet is its superior ? Mysterious night ! when our first parent knew Thee...setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo 1 creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within... | |
 | 1897 - 918 lehte
...language." and apparently It was the only moment of poetic inspiration in his life. The sonnet is called Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee...setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy... | |
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