 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 558 pages
...4. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the...resigned, Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn ; Unheard the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape time's meek twilight steals! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the...resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. friend. Hail, memory, hail ! in thy exhaustless mine From age to age unnumbered treasures shine ! Thought... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1882 - 206 pages
...memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. Ex. 95. — Parse the words in italics in the following : (i) The school's lone porch, with reverend mosses gray, Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay. (ii) As slow 2 our ship her foamy track Against the wind was-cleaving,3 Her trembling pennant still... | |
 | Thomas Turner Tate - Teaching - 1885 - 460 pages
...the mind to the latest period of our existence. " The School's lone porch, with reverend mosses grey, Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay. Mute...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn; Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air, When the slow dial gave... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 pages
...To me this is quite enigmatical. ' In the same page — ' To leam the colour of my future years. 1 As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the...resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. 1 Down by yon hazel copse, at evening, blazed The Gipsy's fagot — there we stood and gazed ; Gazed... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals ! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn ; Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air When the slow dial gave... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals ! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the...mind. The School's lone porch, with reverend mosses grey. .1 u.-t tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay. Mate is the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - English literature - 1894 - 388 pages
...; a pensive placidity pervades the poem. It is thus, for example, he recalls schoolboyhood : — " The school's lone porch, with reverend mosses gray,...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air When the slow dial gave... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...with crumbs yon root-inwoven seat, To lure the red-breast from his lone retreat 1 THE SCHOOL-HOUSE. THE school's lone porch, with reverend mosses gray,...the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant -feet across the lawn ; Unheard the shout that rent the noontide When the slow dial gave a pause... | |
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Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades and life forgets to charm; Thee would the Muse invoke! — to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. 
