 Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour...  Poems - Page 9by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour? These when the trembling spirit takes her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest. The Pleasures of Memory, a very agreeable poem, was written by Samuel Rogers, Esq. Mr. Rogers still... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...obscure the sky; If bnt a beam of soher Reason play, I " Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! Hot can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the...These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Ponr round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...obscure the sky; If but a br.ini of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away '. Bat can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the...well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings hrr flight, Pour round her path a stivani of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...but a beam of sober Reason play, La, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Ar!, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent...trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a «ream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest. Where Virtue triumphs, and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of An, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relic» of a well-spent hour ? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her раЛ а stream of living light; And gild those pure and perfect realms of reel, Where Virtue triumphs,... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; Jf but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo ! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power,...rest, Where VIRTUE triumphs, and her sons are blest! BOGEHS. And thus, MY YOUNG READER, forget not to engrave upon the tablet of thine heart, these words... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! [From The Pleasures of Memory.] THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE. THE school's lone porch, with reverend mosses... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober reason play, Lo, fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power,...rest, Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! Rogers. THE NEEDLESS ALARM. THERE is a field, through which I often pass, Thick overspread with moss... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky; I f but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power,...Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! NOTES ON THE FIRST PART. P. 10,1. 3. How oft, when purple evening tinged the west, VIRGIL, in one of his... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 pages
...fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power,...rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! 45 NOTES THE FIRST PART. P. 10, 1. 3. Hotv oft, when purple evening tinged the west, VIKGIL, in one... | |
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