 | Thomas Smith - 1810 - 394 pages
...flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of Hght; And , where the flowers of Paradise nnfold, Quaff fragrant nectar, from their cups of gold; There shall thy wings, rich as an eveniug sky, Expand and shyt with silent ecstacy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm — a thing that crept... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...shade. O Fancy, paint not coming days too fair ! Oft for the prospects sprightly May should yield, 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, then wrought a tomb and... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...several kinds of moths and butterflies (papilio atalanta, cardamines, ageria, lathonia, tyc.j To the BUTTERFLY. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous...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, then wrought a tomb... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Memory - 1820 - 160 pages
...flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragant nectar from their cups of gold. THE HERMIT. J(3 <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, then wrought a tomb and slept? And such... | |
 | Ramses II (King of Egypt), Edward Upham - 1824 - 366 pages
...lov'st in fields of light ; And, where the flowering lotos does unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from its cups of gold. 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, then wrought a tomh and slept... | |
 | Richard Laurence - Eschatology - 1834 - 158 pages
...unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold ; 1 More's Divine Dialogues, vol. i. pp. 90, 91. 13 There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Entomology - 1835 - 418 pages
...the dying address of Father Paul to his country — " Estote porpetua." LEPIDOPTERA. INTRODUCTION. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...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, then wrought a tomb, and... | |
 | John White - Welsh language - 1835 - 170 pages
...For here them hast no friend; Think—since this life is but a span, Of joys that have no end. THE BUTTERFLY. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous...thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstasy. Yet wert thou once a worm; a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the enn ! pursue thy rapturone flight, Mingling with her thou lovest in jielde of light ;. And, where the flowers of paradise unfold,...thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in sUent ecstasy. .... Yet wert thou once a worm, a thbg that crept On the hare earth, then wrought... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...thou lovest in .fields of light ; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectai from their cups of gold, There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut in silent ecstasy. .... Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought... | |
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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... 
