 I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.  The North American Review - Page 1251884Full view - About this book
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 pages
...calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy,... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 pages
...calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy,... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...calm as it was bright: And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...narrow way ! THE WORLD. And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doating lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pages
...calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. HENRY VAUGHAN. Or this fair volume which we World do name, If we the sheets and leaves could... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Lake a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain; Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1886 - 416 pages
...calm as it was bright ; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world, And all her train, were hurled ! Sober thoughts like these are at all events good for Christians as they advance in age, and they... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...as it was bright; f And round beneath it, time, ÍH hours, days, 1 years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. The doting lover, in his quaintest strain, Did-there complain; Near him his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
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