 O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and...  The American Monthly Magazine - Page 1011824Full view - About this book
 | Henry Moses - India - 1750 - 314 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene. Around her throne the vivid planets roll. And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower...shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head." Departure of day. Rapid advance of night. Indian nights peculiar. Deserted roads. Sepoy guards and... | |
 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scone; around her throne the vivid planets roll, and stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; o'er the dark trees a yellower...sight, eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. t When the battle was ended, the stranger disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come, nor... | |
 | Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - Egypt - 1834 - 598 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene j Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumher'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, • And tipt with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood... | |
 | British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...cloud o'er-casts the solemn scene ; Around her. throne the vivid planets roll, And stars nnnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip wiih silver every mountain's head ; There shiue the vales — the rocks in prospect rise— • A flood... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...cloud o'ercasts the solemn -scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So ma,ny flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering.Xanthus with their rays; The long... | |
 | Richard Warner - Wales - 1800 - 396 pages
...scene; " Around her throne the vivid planets roll, " And stars unnumber.d gild the glowing pole 5 " O.er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, " And tip with silver every mountain.s head; " There shine the vales, the rocks in prospedt rise^ " A flood of glory bursts from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the 5 lemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower...sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light, « So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rajs; The long... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...CYNTHIA. As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night. O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her sacred light, The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light." Pori PALE regent of the midnight sky, Whose soften'd beam allows the gaze Of the wan lover's fixed... | |
 | Slave trade - 1805 - 378 pages
...a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver ev'ry mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from... | |
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