 Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west To golden climes and islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there...  Poems - Page 129by Samuel Rogers - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Hazard - Black people - 1873 - 640 pages
...prayers of so devout a man ; for— " 'Twas the hour of day When setting sung o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west To golden climes...human voices on the silent air Went o'er the waves in aougg of gladness there." CHAPTER XL " Long on the wave the morning mists reposed, Then broke, and... | |
 | 1876 - 1088 pages
...anthem rc*e— Rose to the Virgin. * Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer* seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes...and islands of the blest ; And human voices on the balmy air Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there T —(Kffiri.) As soon as the news got abroad... | |
 | 1876 - 1088 pages
...anthem rose — Rose to the Virgin. ' Г was the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer * seas diapby A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes and inlands of the bleit ; And human voices on the balmy air Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
...anthem rose — Rose to the Virgin. 'Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes...night First from the prow to hail the glimmering light : (Emblem of Truth divine, whose sacred ray Enters the soul and makes the darkness day !) " Pedro !... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...hall or bower, To minstrel-harps at midnight's witching hour ! Samuel Rogers. THE VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS. CHOSEN of men ! 'Twas thine, at noon of night First from the prow to hail the glimmering light (Emblem of Truth divine, whose secret ray Enters the soul and makes the darkness day I): " Pedro !... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...anthem rose, — Rose to the Virgin. 'Twas the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes,...islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent ah", Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there I Chosen of men! 'twas thine, at noon of night,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...eveniug-anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin.1 'Twas the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer-seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes,...the waves in songs of gladness there ! Chosen of Men ! 2 'Twas thine, at noon of night, First from the prow to hail the glimmering light; 5 (Emblem of Truth... | |
 | James Thomas Edwards - 1896 - 304 pages
...anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin. 'Tvvas the hour of day, When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes...air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there." The morning came and with it the cry, "Land, land ! " A cannon for the first time awoke the echoes... | |
 | James Shaw - Teachers - 1899 - 550 pages
...merry maids all in a row, and to the good old Radical giving him the ride we have no doubt it was— ' A path of glory opening in the west. To golden climes and islands of the blest.' * At this time Shaw would be in his sixth year. Each new arch seemed to revel in a splendour which... | |
 | Orby Shipley - 1902 - 624 pages
...filiae Hevae'— Rose to the Virgin. 'Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer-seas display A path of glory, opening in the west To golden climes...First from the prow to hail the glimmering light; (Emblem of Truth divine, whose secret ray Enters the soul and makes the darkness day) ' Piedro ; Rodrigo... | |
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