 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast...In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best? From " The Vision of Sir THE BUBIAL AT GETTTSBUEG. EA WASHBUENE, D. D A VOICE as of the ocean surge... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast...— In the nice ear of nature which song is the best ? 3. Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast...— In the nice ear of nature which song is the best ? 3. Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the egg beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast...— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? in. Now is the high-tide of the year, Comes flooding back, with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet... | |
 | 1867 - 1012 pages
...light,' wbich have since become well known." Let me add a few lines of this wellknown Sonnet : — " Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom ; Lead...dark, and I am far from home; Lead thou me on ! Keep thon my feet ; I do not ask to see The distant scene ;— one step enough for me." In a later port... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 pages
...till angels shout, As thou sit'st at the feet of God, victorious, Philip, my King! Miss Muloch. TTE sings to the wide world, and she to her nest ; In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best ? OUK BABY. T\ID you ever see our baby? •^ Little Tot; With her eyes so sparkling bright, And her... | |
 | 1867 - 1186 pages
...light," which have since become well known." Let me add a few lines of this wellknown Sonnet : — " Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom ; Lead thou me on ! The night is dark, and I am far from home; 1 .1 .nl thon me on ! Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see The distant... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 438 pages
...and join in a common prayer. Familiar as the lines are, they may here be written down once more: — Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom Lead Thou me on. The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thon me on. Keep Thou my feet ; I do not ask to see Far distant... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...ariseth up light in the darkness — is in the present edition called " The Pillar of the Cloud " :— " Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on ! The night is dark, and I am fur from home — Lead Thou mo on ! Ki'eji Thou my feet, I do not ask to see The distant... | |
 | 1868 - 650 pages
...endeared to many readers. Such is that most loved of lyrics ' The Pillar of the Cloud,' beginning — ' Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on ! The night is dark and 1 am far from hotm; Lead Thou me on ! Keep Thou my feet ; I do not aek to see The distant... | |
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The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings;... 
