 | John Holland - 1843 - 402 lehte
...attentive looks watch every hour, For thy new light and trembled at each shower. — vAUGHAN. THE RAINBOW. When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant...How came the world's gray fathers forth, [To watch the sacred sign. CAMPBELL. We have now arrived at the period of the publication of a Metrical Version... | |
 | 1844 - 320 lehte
...compliance of the heart with the whole will of God.— Sir M. Hale. THE RAINBOW The Rainbow shines no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first its robe of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant it did... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 lehte
...Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws !3 And yet,4 fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most...why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 1 Triumphal arch — There is something very fine in the conception of the rainbow's being a triumphal... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 lehte
...creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of...undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1846 - 396 lehte
...unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? To me, fair bow no fabling dreams, But words of the Most...of beams Was woven in the sky. When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 lehte
...face Enchantment's vail withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! 5. And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of...why first thy robe of beams, Was woven in the sky. 6. When, o'er the green, undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's... | |
 | 1846 - 516 lehte
...we mnst content ourselves with a single stanza, however, from each: " When o'er the green, undelmred earth. Heaven's covenant thou didst shine ; How came...world's gray fathers forth, To watch thy sacred sign. [Campbell. " Still youn^ and fine ! but what is still in view We alight as ol 1 and soiled, though... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 lehte
..." When o'er the green undelug'd earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ? " And when its yellow lustre smil'd O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God ! " Methinks,... | |
 | Stephen W. q (Stephen Watkins) Clark - 1847 - 242 lehte
...13.—Double Conjunctions are sometimes used. EXAMPLEs—" As though he had not been anointed with oil." " And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of...why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky." OBs. 14.—But they may not be used when one of them would fully express the connection. EXAMPLE—"... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 lehte
...celebrated poet alluded to this sublime and paternal declaration, in his address to the Rainbow : — " When, o'er the green undeluged earth, Heaven's covenant...gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! " And, while its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child, To bless... | |
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And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High Have told, why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky. 
