 Could crystallize this sacred treasure ! Long should it glitter near my heart, A secret source of pensive pleasure. The little brilliant, ere it fell, Its lustre caught from CHLOE'S eye ; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility...  Poems - Page 181by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 458 pages
...Benign restorer of the soul I Who ever fly'st to bring relief, When first we feel the rude control Of Love or Pity, Joy or Grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age ; That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eye; Then, trembling, left its coral cell— The spring of sensibility ! In thee the rays of Virtue shine; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Sweet drop of pure and pearly light! Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of the soul!... | |
 | Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 pages
...Its lustre caught from Chloe's eye, Then trembling left its coral cell, The spring of sensibility ! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays...fly'st to bring relief, When first we feel the rude control Of love or pity, joy or grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age... | |
 | Oskar Guttmann - Chants - 1893 - 298 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eys; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility. Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays...fly'st to bring relief, When first we feel the rude control Of Lovo or Pity, Joy or Grief. The sage's and the poet's theme In every clime, in every age,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever. g. POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 163. There is a Hill beside the Silver Thames. Slow...Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt In Twit'nh A. SAM'L ROGERS — On a Tear. According to his virtue let us use him. With all respect and rites of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eye; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility ! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light, In thee the rays of Yirtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 558 pages
...lustre caught from Chloe's eye ; Then, trembling, left its coral cell — The spring of Sensibility! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the...gilds the mine. Benign restorer of the soul ! Who ever fliest to bring relief, When first we feel the rude control Of Love or Pity, Joy or Grief. The sage's... | |
 | American literature - 1903 - 462 pages
...bv the student. It is regarded, sav thev. Savoy,' and a tear is described in these sonorous lines: " Sweet drop of pure and pearly light ! In thee the...mildly bright. Than any gem that gilds the mine." Rogers's poetry was enjoyed and praised without stint by his contemporaries, Lord Byron among the number,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...spring of Sensibility ! Sweet drop of pure and pearly light I In thee the rays of Virtue shine, ю More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine. Benign restorer of the soul 1 Who ever fliest to bring relief, When first we feel the rude control Of Love or Pity, Joy or Grief.... | |
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