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 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...seems to one iu drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. KEATS. INSECT EMBLEM. 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... | |
| Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - Liberalism (Religion) - 1843 - 444 pages
...contain in brief all that spiritual philosophy which we have already educed from the Scriptures. " 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 On... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...green-wood shade ; These simple joys, that never fail, Shall bind me to my native vale. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...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... | |
| 1843 - 758 pages
...warm, prevailing tone, Friend and teacher, fain would we; Though away, remembered me. THE BUTTERFLY. Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...light ; And where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quail' fragrant nectar from their cups of gold, There shall thy winga, rich as an evening sky, Expand... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...with double lustre. 1 A phenomenon described by many navigators. S AtWobum-Abbev. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lovest in fields of light; And, where the flowers of Paradise uitfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their... | |
| Hawks Le Grice - Sculptors - 1844 - 466 pages
...net ; nor trust thyself to Love's deceitful arts : " Child of the Sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight t Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light And...their cups of gold , There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky 5 Expand and shut with silent ecstasy. Rogers. LOVE TAMING A LION, a bas-relief. In this... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...greenwood shade; These simple joys that never fail, Shall bind me to my native vale. To the Butterfly. ^uiill' fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...greenwood shade; These simple joys that never fail, Shall bind me to my native vale. To the DwUcrjly. ?hild and Robert Chambers juaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand... | |
| Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...pursue thy rapturous flight, Winging thy glorious way through fields of light ; And where the floweri of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut, with silent ecstacy ! Yet wert thou once a thing that crept, On the base... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...divine, And nursed thy infant years with many a strain from Heaven ! * Mrs. Sheridan's. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling...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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