 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 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? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply... | |
 | Evangelical union - 1878 - 486 pages
...Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. 1721. Tr. HLL 1853. 263 104,104,1010. "Zarf, tinA'v Light.' 1 LEAD, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom Lead thou me on. The night is dark, and I am fax from home, Lead thou me on. Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see The distant... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 400 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? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 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 ? Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a... | |
 | New York State College of Agriculture - 1920 - 1044 pages
...summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast nutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to...In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best ? From The Vision of Sir Launfal by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WINTER BIRDS From out the white and pulsing... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - 1897 - 404 pages
...it. With this in view Cardinal Newman's hymn, with its appropriate music, often comes home to me : " Lead kindly light, amid the encircling gloom Lead thou me on, The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead thou me on." We dare not penetrate the sacred precincts of his home,... | |
 | 1982 - 348 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...nature, which song is the best? James Russell Lowell 529. A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent , forspent . Into... | |
 | Dermot McCarthy - 1991 - 344 pages
...man walking toward the "simple light" of home in the last stanza. Compare "The Pillar of the Cloud": "Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, / Lead thou me on; / The night is dark, and I am far from home, / Lead thou me on." See Newman, Verses on Various Occasions, 156. 39... | |
 | Alan Lupack - 1992 - 512 pages
...And lets his illumined being o'crrun With the deluge of summer it receives; I lis mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; Me sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice car of Nature which song is the best?... | |
 | William Gerber - 1994 - 312 pages
...hymn which the orchestra on the Titanic played when the ship was going down. The hymn begins: (788) Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on. The night is dark, and I am far from home — Lead thou me on. A prayer for wisdom, reminiscent of (789) King Solomon's... | |
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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;... 
