 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...— holier far • ' Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1817 - 374 pages
...wave." From Chateaubriand's Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light...glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flower* Is... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 416 pages
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 418 pages
...the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun « Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there,... | |
 | History - 1818 - 798 pages
...— holier far '• Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be "That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet. While summer in a vale of flowers.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...not — holier far " Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...not — holier far " Than even this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light...glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...wave." — From CHATEAUBRIAND'S Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light...And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Ornamental trees - 1823 - 346 pages
...hence called Suristan (the Land of Roses).* " Each common bush shall Syrian roses wear." VIRGIL. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes." T. MOORE. Forster says, " the rose of Kashmire for its brilliancy and delicacy of odour has long been... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...not— holier far " Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of...glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers,... | |
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Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at... 
