 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1802 - 308 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! . — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph In the blaze of day I CAPTIVITY. CAG'D in old woods, whose reverend echoes wake When the hern screams along the distant... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.* WHOE'EH thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark where the small... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY* 77 HOE'EK them art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark where the small... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in ihe blaze of day ! ROGERS. H Rain-pouring clouds have darkened all the air, Or snows untimely whitened... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...<l'l,ere shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! THE HERMIT. FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend hermit grew ; The moss... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1806.* WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day !" " The Epistle to a Friend" is an exquisite piece; quite equal, in general style, to Horace or Pope. The Poem... | |
 | Ramses II (King of Egypt), Edward Upham - 1824 - 366 pages
...silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomh and slept ! And such is man ! soon from his cell of clay To shine resplendent in the blaze of day.' Seizing the hand of Smendis, Rameses exclaimed : * my full... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth,...cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1806.' WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Mark... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...ecslary! — Vet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On ihe bare earth, then wroLght a lomb nnd slept And such is man : soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. OCTOBER 10, 1800.1 WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, '»¡'ha sigh,... | |
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Child of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light. And where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold : There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky. Expand and shut with... 
