 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 pages
...eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning-star shines dead ; As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle,alit, one moment may sit, In the light of its golden wings. And when sunset may breathe, from... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 192 pages
...heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning-star shines dead ; As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 500 pages
...poitrine mouvante, — scintillait entre des berceaux de branches fleuries, — des clartés d'émeLeaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning star shines dead.... The orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortal cali the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...heaven's blue smile, While he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack When the morning-star shines dead. As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, THE... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my...sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath, Its ardors of rest and of love, And the crimson pall of eve may fall From the depth of heaven above, With... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1868 - 328 pages
...sailing rack, When the morning-star shines dead. As on the jag of a monntain crag, Which an earthqnake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings. And when snnset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath, Its ardonrs of rest and of love, And the crimson pall... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pages
...instances in which he spiritualizes matter : — ' The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack When the morning star shines dead. * * ' * * ' That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Which mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my...rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit Its ardours of rest and of love, And the crimson pall of eve may fall From the depth of heaven above,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Ii-:ip- on the back of my sailing rack2 When the morning-star shines dead ; As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An ea#lc alit one moment may sit In tlie light of its golden wings; And when sunset may breathe, from... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, When the morning star' shines deitd; As on the jag of a mountain crag, Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit, one moment... | |
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Which an earthquake rocks and swings, An eagle alit one moment may sit In the light of its golden wings. 
