 have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal night Rest on your spheres; and yet no tidings reach This distant planet. Messengers still come Laden with your far fire, and we may seem To see your lights still burning; while their blaze But hides...  The Poets of America - Page 60edited by - 1842 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1831 - 424 pages
...which their beams descend! 19* Yea, glorious lamps of God ! He may have quenched Your ancient names, and bid eternal night Rest on your spheres; and yet...realms, Where anarchy and darkness long have reigned. Yet what is this, which to the astonished mind Seems measureless, and which the baffled thought Confounds... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...So vast the void through which their beams descend! Yea, glorious lamps of God! He may have quenced Your ancient flames, and bid eternal night Rest on...realms, Where anarchy and darkness long have reigned. Yet what is this, which to the astonished mind Seems measureless, and which the baffled thought Confounds?... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1832 - 410 pages
...revolve! So vast the void through which their beams descend! 19* Yea, glorious lamps of God ! He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal...black wreck of extinguished realms, Where anarchy anifdarkness long have reigned. Yet what is this, which to the astonished mind Seems measureless, and... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1833 - 424 pages
...orbs revolve! So vast the void through which their beams descend! Yea, glorious lamps of God, He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal...realms, Where anarchy and darkness long have reigned. Yet what is this, which to the astonished mind Seems measureless, and which the baffled thought Confounds?... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1834 - 602 pages
...revolve ! So vast the void through which their beams descend ' ' Yea, glorious lamps of God! He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal...far fire, and we may seem To see your lights still bunting; while their blaze Km hides the black wreck of extinguished realms, Where anarchy and darkness... | |
 | Education - 1834 - 592 pages
...revolve 1 So vast the void through which their beams descend ! ' Yea, glorious lamps of God ! He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal...planet. Messengers still come Laden with your far 6ro, and we may seem To Bee jour lights still burning ; while their blaze Km hides the black wreck... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1834 - 638 pages
...twice three years ago. < ' Yea, glorious lamps of God'. He may have quenched Your ancient ll nnes. and bid eternal night Rest on your spheres; and yet...planet. Messengers still come Laden with your far firo, and we may seem To see your lights still burning; while their blaze Uni hides the black wreck... | |
 | Education - 1834 - 602 pages
...revolve ! So vast the void through which their beams descend! ' Yea, glorious lamps of God ! He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal night Rest on your spheres ; and vet no tidings reach Th's distant planet. Messengers still come Laden with your fiir lire, and we may... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...revolve! So vast the void through which their beams descend! 19* ^^m Yea, glorious lamps of God ! He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal...realms, Where anarchy and darkness long have reigned. Yet what is this, which to the astonished mind Seems measureless, and which the baffled thought Confounds... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1841 - 418 pages
...this infinite extent And multitude of God's most infinite works! I Yea, glorious lamps of God ! He may have quenched Your ancient flames, and bid eternal...realms, Where anarchy and darkness long have reigned. And these are suns !—vast, central, living fires, Lords of dependent systems, kings of worlds That... | |
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