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
| Alfred George Stephens - Australian poetry - 1905 - 54 pages
...Columbus," which has lines like . . . '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 . . . To a memory of this Daley owes the stanza, His wake across the ocean-floor In a long glory lies,... | |
| Richard Ellis Roberts - London (England) - 1910 - 360 pages
...anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin.8 '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;8 1 Ex ligno lucido confectura, et arte mira laboratum (P. Martyr, dec. i. 5). * The Simoon.... | |
| Richard Ellis Roberts - London (England) - 1910 - 356 pages
...anthem rose, Rose to the Virgin.8 '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 ! 4 'Twas thine, at noon of night, First from the prow to hail the glimmering light;5 1 Ex ligno lucido... | |
| Richard Ellis Roberts - London (England) - 1910 - 390 pages
...human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there ! Chosen of men ! 4 'Twas thine, at noon of night, First from the prow to hail the glimmering light;5 1 Ex Hgno lucido confectum, et arte mira laboratum (P. Martyr, dec. i. 5). 1 The Simoon. *... | |
| Frank Honywell Fenno - Elocution - 1912 - 348 pages
...anthem rose,— Rose to the Virgin. 'Twaa 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 t (Emblem of Truth divine, whose secret ray Enters the soul and makes the darkness day! J " Pedro!... | |
| Sara Agnes Ryan - 1917 - 314 pages
...anxious eyes, the dark — What sees he far away? A spark, A little glimmering light." T. Trowbridge. ' ' 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!) 'Pedro! Eodrigo!... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...rose : Rose to the Virgin — Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path A path of glory opening in the west, To golden climes and islands of the blest, And human voices in the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there ! Chosen of men ! 'twas thine at... | |
| Readers - 1899 - 336 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 and islands of the blest ; And hitman voices on the silent air Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there ! Chosen of men ! 'Twas... | |
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