 | 1848 - 780 pages
...* * And take these, in the most graceful of all mea sures— they ate from " To one in Paradise." * And all my days are trances And all my nightly dreams...In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams." Along with wonderful beauty of rhythm, thes' verses show the exquisite laste in phraseology, th< nice... | |
 | 1839 - 372 pages
...sands upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree Or the stricken eagle soar. And all my hours are trances And all my nightly dreams Are where thy...In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. REFLECTIONS IN A COUNTRY GRAVE YARD. COME, let us recline awhile beneath the wide-spreading branches... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar ! And all my hours are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy...footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, By what Italian streams. Alas 1 for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From Love to titled... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 696 pages
...the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar ! And all my hours arc trances, And all my nightly dreams » Are where thy...footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, By what Italiau streams. Alas ! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From Love to titled... | |
 | 1841 - 376 pages
...upon the shore) — Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar. And all my hours are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy...In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. THE BREEZES FAN MY BROW. BY JAMES P. OTIS. THE breezes fan my brow, And softly round rne play ; They're... | |
 | 1853 - 842 pages
...' (Such language holds the solemn sea To the sands upon the shore.) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar. And all my days...eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams — In « hat cthcrial dances, By what eternal streams. There( can be no doubt whatever that these two poems... | |
 | 1914 - 670 pages
...title of " The Royal." BRADSTOW. ' To ONE IN PARADISE ' (11 S. ix. 511). — The full stanza rims : — And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams...— In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams ! The person apostrophized is, presumably, nobody specially, this being in Poe's manner — " Une érotomaiiie... | |
 | 1914 - 650 pages
...PABADISE.' — To whom did Poe address the stanzas thus entitled, which end with the well-known lines : — And where thy footstep gleams — In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams ! HHF " CONDAMINE." — I should be glad to know the meaning and derivation of the word " Condamine,"... | |
 | 1853 - 774 pages
...To the sands upon the shore), Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar ! 1 And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams...; In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams !" Our readers must have remarked in the passages already quoted a peculiar habit of the poet — it... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...To the sands upon the shore) Shall bloom tht thunder-blasted tree. Or the stricken eagle soar ! rv. And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams...In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. THE VALLEY OF UNREST. Once it smiled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell ; They had gone unto... | |
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Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! For, alas! alas! with me The light of Life is o'er! "No more — no more — no more... 
