PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate : And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant... The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine - Page 2841817Full view - About this book
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...an Orientai Romance. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stunil disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid (lowers... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1817 - 374 pages
...Paradise and the Peri. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing;...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place! " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers that... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1817 - 738 pages
...pleased with it. « One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen'«! to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! ' " How happy," exclaim'«! this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers... | |
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| 1817 - 708 pages
...Peri." It opens thus : " One morn, a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood> disconsolate ; And aa she listen'*! to the Springs of Life within, like music flowing: And caught the light upon her wings, . t Through the half-open portal glowing. She wept, to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost... | |
| Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...Rookh," an Oriental Romance. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place '. " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1818 - 422 pages
...Of Eden stood, disconsolate; And as she listeii'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music Sowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers... | |
| 1818 - 590 pages
...author's own introduction. ' One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing : And caught the light upon her wings Through the halt-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,And caught the light upon her wings Through the halt-open portal glowing. She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Of JLife within , like music ßowing, And ceaight the light upon her wings, Through the half- open portal glowing, She wept , to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost tliat glorious place *).'" An Edens Thor, das eben offen, Stand eine Peri schwer betroffen: — Da... | |
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