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" 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 35
by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 48 pages
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Inaugural lectures delivered at the Liverpool ladies' college in 1856

Liverpool ladies' coll - 1857 - 218 pages
...chase ; you will then do well to recall the words of Eogers, addressed to the gilded 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 ecstacy ! Yet thou wert once a worm, a thing that crept On...
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Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire: Its Towns, Watering Places, Dales ...

Derbyshire (England) - 1857 - 218 pages
...the human soul— psyche. MMern poetry has seized the beautiful figure. Child of the sun I pursue tby rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in...Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of irold. There shall thy winas, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! — Yet...
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Athanasia: Or, Foregleams of Immortality

Edmund Hamilton Sears - Holy Spirit - 1858 - 364 pages
...alteration • of a single word, are a fitting and brief summing np of the doctrine of Paul : — " 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 ecstasy ; — Yet wert thou once a worm, — a thing that crept...
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Athanasia: Or, Foregleams of Immortality

Edmund Hamilton Sears - Holy Spirit - 1858 - 364 pages
...the alteration of a single word, are a fitting and brief summing up of the doctrine of Paul : — " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from then- cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut, in silent ecstasy...
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Sargent's School Monthly, for Home and School Use, Volume 1

Education - 1859 - 396 pages
...ha, ha ! . Come on. [Exeunt. 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 on* a worm ; a thing that crept...
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Foregleams of immortality

Edmund Hamilton Sears - Immortality - 1859 - 298 pages
...the alteration of a single word, are a fitting and brief summing up of the doctrine of Paul : — " Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'et in fields of light, And where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their...
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Humble creatures, by J. Samuelson assisted by J.B. Hicks, Part 2

James Samuelson - 1860 - 208 pages
...introducing his verses, which will serve to relieve the monotony of our physiological studies : — " 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 thou wert once a worm, a thing that crept On...
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British Butterflies

James Duncan - Butterflies - 1860 - 438 pages
...of Father Paul to his country — " Estote perpetual IEPIDOPTERA. INTRODUCTION. Child of the sun 1 pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou...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 On...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers: With a Biographical Sketch and ...

Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...first a flight divine, And nursed thy infant years with many a strain from Heaven ! TO THE BUTTERFLY. 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 On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1861 - 876 pages
...their course." TO A BUTTERFLY. " Child of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight! Mingling with her thon lov'st in fields of light ; And where the flowers...fragrant nectar from their cups of gold; There shall thy wing«, rich AS an evening ekr, Expand and shut with silent ecstaey: Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing...
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