 PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listened to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant...  The works of Thomas Moore - Page 131by Thomas Moore - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819
...an Orientai Romance. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stunil disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid (lowers that never shall fade or fall ! " Though mine are the gardens of earth and sea, " And the stars... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1817
...pleased with it. « One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen'«! to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...e'er have lost that glorious place ! ' " How happy," exclaim'«! this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers that never shall... | |
 | English literature - 1817
...Peri." 1 1 opens thus: " One morn, • Pen at the gato Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen M to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place." The angel who keeps the gates of light then tells the Peri the conditions on which she may be re-admitted... | |
 | Books - 1817
...which thus commences : ' One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place !' Such Such is the opening of this tale ; and never did an int duction lead to a more enchanting and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 320 pages
...PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place 1 " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits who wander there, " Mid flowers... | |
 | 1817
...Peri." It opens thus : " One morn, a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood> disconsolate ; And aa she listen'*! to the Springs of Life within, like music flowing: And caught the light upon her wings, . t Through the half-open portal glowing. She wept, to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost... | |
 | 1817
...wept to think her r creant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! " How happy, exclnim'd this child of air, Are the holy Spirits who wander there. Mid Bnwrr« that never shall fade or full •. Though mine are the gardens of earth and «<T, And the stars... | |
 | 1818
...author's own introduction. ' One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing : And caught the light upon her wings Through the halt-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 741 pages
...Of JLife within , like music ßowing, And ceaight the light upon her wings, Through the half- open portal glowing, She wept , to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost tliat glorious place *).'" An Edens Thor, das eben offen, Stand eine Peri schwer betroffen: — Da... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, Irish - 1821 - 252 pages
...PARADISE AND THE PERI. ONE morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate ; And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing,...glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'«r have lost that gtorious place ! " How happy," exclaim'd this child of air, " Are the holy Spirits... | |
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