 Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought, When yet I had not walked above A mile or two, from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse...  Lives of Sacred Poets - Page 245by Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...past,) My God would give a sunshine after rain. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place...But a white celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love ; And looking back, at that short space, Could see a... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...past,) My God would give a sunshine after rain. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place...But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love ; And looking back, at that short space, Could see a... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...conception and in the expression : — " Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy ; Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...ought, But a white celestial thought — * * * ' * When on some gilded cloud, or flower, My gazing soul could dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...6th. stanza, is very charming. The last verse is imitated from Herbert's poem on Grace. THE EETREAT. Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy....Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought, — When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...story ; A taste of heaven on earth ; the pledge and cue Of a full feast, and the out-courts of glory. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; - - , — i When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...very life of things. Happy those early days when I Shrined in my angel infancy! Ere I understood thin place Appointed for my second race : Or taught my soul to fancy aught, But a white celestial thought. When on some gilded cloud or flower, My piling soul would dwell... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early dayes when I stil:. '.i in my Angell-infancy ! Eefore I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, Celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...cue Of a full feast, and the out-courts of glory. THE RETREAT. HAPPV those early days, when I Sinned in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place,...Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...this passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early daye* when I Shin'd in ray Angell-infaucy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought I'.ut a white, Celestiall thought ; When yet 1 had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 568 pages
...poet, Samuel Rogers. " The ttetreate. " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell- infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second...But a white, celestial! thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse... | |
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