 | Myles Endicott - Bible - 1897 - 250 pages
...happy spirits to alight Betwixt the eartk and heaven. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. — T. Campbell. Never was rainbow so beautiful ! Then the voice of God spoke from out the skies to... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean va£t, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with ag« That first spoke peace to man. [ALARic ALEBANDER WATTS. 1789—1864.] MY OWN FIRESIDE. LET others... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...in the freshen'd fields, The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, u THOMAS CAMPBELL, THE RAINBOW. MY heart leaps up when I behold A Hainbow in the sky: So was it when... | |
 | John Burroughs - American poetry - 1901 - 388 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down! As fresh...to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span ; THE BEECH TREE'S PETITION By Thomas Campbell LEAVE this barren spot to me ! Spare, woodman, spare... | |
 | Patrick Leopoldo Gray - Cousins - 1902 - 174 pages
...childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. ****** For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. Just as the song ended, the bow began to disappear where it touched the land. Iris was there collecting... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1902 - 192 pages
...snowy mushroom springs. 40 How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, 45 As young thy beauties seem As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1904 - 316 pages
...in the freshen'd fields The snowy mushroom springs. How glorious is thy girdle, cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A...grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. 1819. SONG TO THE EVENING STAR STAR that bringest home the bee, And sett'st the weary labourer free... | |
 | 1904 - 1068 pages
...symbolism which has foundations in permanence. We still treasure Campbell's poem on the Rainbow : — "As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man." There is many another type that remain s as fresh. Three-fourths of a century ago, in that same poem,... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...still the poet's theme ! How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam." And one of his latest poems, The Dead Eagle, written at Oran in Africa, bears witness to the same,... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Lake poets - 1906 - 394 pages
...girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down 1 As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties...the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam." And one of his latest poems, The Dead Eagle, written at Oran in Africa, bears witness to the same,... | |
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O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven... 
