CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with... Poems - Page 35by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...BUTTERFLY— The, It flies, and seems a flower that floats on air. CoilUHI It?. BUTTERFLY— Address to the. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling...from their cups of gold : There shall thy wings, rich &s an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy : Yet wert thou once a worm — a thing that... | |
| Charles Smith Cheltnam - 1863 - 176 pages
...pretty lines of Eogers's :— TO A BUTTERFLY. " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingle with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And where...their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! '—Yet wert thou once a worm : a thing that crept... | |
| Months - Months - 1864 - 276 pages
...darksome grave, And thy soft petals' silvery light In the mild breeze unfettered wave. THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the Sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky. Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept... | |
| Hiram Mattison - Future life - 1866 - 572 pages
...going forth of the soul from the body at the hour of death, to inhabit the regions of eternal day ! Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut, in silent ecstacy ; — Yet wert thou once a worm, — a thing that crept... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...like a meteor, and is gone ! Rogers's Lines to a Butterfly are replete with grace and beauty : — Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...Paradise unfold, QuafF fragrant nectar from their cupj of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy !... | |
| Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 254 pages
...seventeenth century. LXXV. " CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her them lov'st in fields of light ; And, where the flowers...their cups of gold. There, shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy ! Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...had his estate. J. DRVDEN 849 TO THE BUTTERFLY of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight, V — mingle with her thou lov'st in fields of light; and where the flowers of Paradise unfold, quaff fragrant neclar from their cups of gold: there shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, expand and shut with... | |
| 1867 - 434 pages
...more appropriately than by quoting them, in order that my readers may appreciate their merit — " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st, in fields of tight, And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold ; There... | |
| James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...some kindred fly, and then mounting high in air, with capricious circular sweeps, until lost to view. "Child of the Sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lo vest in fields of light. " Anatomists state that the perfect fly may be distinguished in the caterpillar,... | |
| Hiram Mattison - History - 1867 - 400 pages
...going forth of the soul from the body at the hour of death, to inhabit the regions of eternal day! Child of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'stin fields of light, And where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their... | |
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