 | 1876 - 592 pages
...low.' To what extent subsequent inspiration has been assisted by his exquisite sonnet, commencing ' With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face ; ' may be more readily surmised than ascertained. It must be admitted that the beauties... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1808 - 698 pages
...advance In the blue welkin's vault. — Pale wanderer! Hast thou too felt the pangs of hopless love, * With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a lace! SIR P. SIDNEY. YOJU. I. Y That thus, with such a melancholy grace, Thou dost pursue thy... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 400 pages
...advance In the blue welkin's vault ! — Pale wanderer ! Hast thou too felt the pangs of hopeless love, * With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently and with how wan a face ! *m P. SIBKKT. • 3 341 That thus, with such a melancholy grace, Thou dost pursue thy... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...advance In the blue welkin's vault ! — Pale wanderer ! Hast thou too felt the pangs of hopeless love, * With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently and with how wan a face ! SIR P. SIDNEY. That thus, with such a melancholy grace, Thou dost pursue thy solitary... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...more truth of feeling, and in more appropriate terms. — How exquisite are the two first lines ! " With how sad steps, O moon! thou climb'st the skies! How silently — and with how wan a face! —What! may it be — that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...overpass, Unseen, unheard, while thought to highest place Bends all his powers, even unto Stella's grace. *99 / wan a face ! What! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries?... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...truth of feeling, and in more appropriate terms. — How exquisite are the two first lines ! • " With how sad steps, O moon ! thou climb'st the skies ! How silently — and with how wan a face ! — What! may it be — that even in heavenly place . That busy archer his sharp arrows... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...more truth of feeling, and in more appropriate terms. — How exquisite are the two first lines ! " With how sad steps, O moon ! thou climb'st the skies ! How silently — and with how wan a face ! — What! may it be — that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 412 pages
...transferring the colour of his own thoughts and feelings to the external objects of nature : AVith how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently, and with how wan a face, etc. time on the evening before the day of his execution, with five hundred pounds in his... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1830 - 334 pages
...time ; Though not a hope shall spread its glittering hue To cheat thy steps along the weary way. * With how sad steps, O moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face ! Sir P. Sulnty. 0 that the sum of human happiness Should be so trifling, and so frail withal,... | |
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WITH how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? 
