 To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know ; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades, and life forgets to charm ; Thee would the muse invoke ! to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. What...  The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Page 11by Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...What softened views thy magic glass reveals, [twilight steals ! When o'er the landscape Time's meek As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play, Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. The school's lone... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 558 pages
...would the Muse invoke !— to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. 4. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape...day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play ; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned, Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. Mute is the bell... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...Thee would the Muse invoke! — to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape...day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. friend. Hail, memory,... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 pages
...To me this is quite enigmatical. ' In the same page — ' To leam the colour of my future years. 1 As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play ; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. 1 Down by yon hazel... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 492 pages
...; Thee would the Muse invoke ! to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals ! The comparison of these passages — and they are put in juxtaposition by Mr. Polwhele himself —... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...Thee would the Muse invoke ! — to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape...day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play ; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. The School's lone... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...Thee would the Muse invoke! — to thee belong The sage's precept and the poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape...day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play; Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned, Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. The school's lone... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 466 pages
...poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek landscape steals! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play,— Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned. Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. The school's lone... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek landscape steals ! As when in ocean sinks the orb of day, Long on the wave reflected lustres play, — Thy tempered gleams of happiness resigned, Glance on the darkened mirror of the mind. The school's lone... | |
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