 Surveys the sleepless muser, stamps the hour Of utter silence, it is fearful then To steer the mind, in deadly solitude. Up the vague stream of probability; To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time!  The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - Page 28by Henry Kirke White - 1830 - 221 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 318 pages
...vague stream of probability ; To wind t!*e mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time! — Oh who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth,...dismaying sense Of human impotence? The life of man Is siimm'd in birth-days and in sepulchres; But the Eternal God had no beginning ; He hath no end. Time... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 336 pages
...probability ; . ; To wind the mighty secrets of the past, ••: And turn the key of Time !— Oh who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth,...sepulchres ; But the Eternal God had no beginning ; He hath ho end. Time had been with him For everlasting, ere the daedal world Rose from the gulph in loveliness.... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1813 - 338 pages
...probability; . , • i ... To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of Time !—Oh who can strive ..; . . To comprehend the vast, the...of man Is summ'd in birth-days and in sepulchres; He hath no end. Time had been with him But the Eternal God had no beginning; For everlasting, ere the... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1827 - 486 pages
...vague stream of probability ; To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of Time! Oh! who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth,...end. Time had been with him For everlasting, ere the deedal world Eose from the gulf in loveliness. — Like him It knew no source ; like him 'twas uncreate.... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English literature - 1827 - 242 pages
...vague stream of probability; To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of Time! — Oh! who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth...dismaying sense Of human impotence ? The life of man Is summed in birthdays and in sepulchres: But the Eternal God had no beginning; He hath no end. Time had... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English essays - 1829 - 436 pages
...stream of probability ; To wind the mighty secrets of tlie past, And turn the key of Time ? — Oh ! who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth,...beginning ; He hath no end. Time had been with him Rose from the gulf in lovelinessi — Like him It knew no source, like him 'twas uncreate. What is... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English essays - 1829 - 426 pages
...stream of probability ; To wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of Time ? — Oh ! who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth, Of the eternity that hath gone 6y, And not recoil from the dismaying sense Of human impotence ? The life of man Is sumin'd in birth-days... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Time! — Oh! who can sirire To comprehend the vast, the awful truth, Of the eternity tíiat hath gont by, And not recoil from the dismaying sense Of human impotence? The life of man Is bumm'd in birih-days and in sepulchres: But the Eternal God bad no beginning ; He hath no end. Time... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...trulh, Of the eternity thai hath gone by, And not recoil from the dismaying sense Of human impotence I The life of man Is summ'd in birth-days and in sepulchres: But the Eternal God had no beginning i He halh no end. Time had been with him For everlasting, ere ihe dœdal world Rose from the gulf in... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...stream of prabability ; To wind the mighty secrets of the pott, And turn the key of Time !— £/b ! who can strive To comprehend the vast, the awful truth, Of the eternity thai hath gone by, And not recoil from the dismaying sense Of human impotence t The life of man Is... | |
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