 | william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like stars on high, Satellites burning...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. PLACES OF WORSHIP As star that shines dependent upon star Is to the sky while we look up in love; As... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...Apart, — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. CHARACTER OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESIH'RY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL," PART I. FOR... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 pages
...Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars on high, Satellites burning...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. • • • • f •• • • ' . •-.•'! .ji: "•• • CLERICAL INTEGRITY NOR shall the eternal... | |
 | Robert Lynd - Sonnets, English - 1927 - 78 pages
...Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like stars on high, Satellites burning...a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. William Wordsworth FANCY IN NUBIBUS OR THE POET IN THE CLOUDS Oit is pleasant, with a heart at ease,... | |
 | Jessica Martin - Biography as a literary form - 2001 - 384 pages
...Apart—like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. Wordsworth's image of the ring of stars recalls Walton's own reference to the collected Donne, Wotton,... | |
 | 1861 - 584 pages
...sonnet on the subject, " so fair as these ;:' and he continues, " Methinks their very names shine pure and bright, Apart, like glow-worms in the woods of...a lucid ring, Around meek Walton's heavenly memory !" The book constitutes the very gem of all beautiful biographies. About once a year I take the Lives... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on high, Satellites burning in...lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory." Was there not detraction and scandal to be picked up of each and every of these " satellites " ? Doubtless... | |
 | Astronomy - 1918 - 512 pages
...to Lake Lugano, is faithfully and fully recorded. Do not the lines on Walton's Book of Lives . , . seen — like stars on high Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory (which Col. Markwick finds a difficulty in interpreting) refer to Jupiter's satellites ? They would,... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 1048 pages
...the woods of spring, Or lonely tapers shooting far a light That guides and cheers — or — seem, like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. In the last volume of Wordsworth, are some exquisite stanzas on " The Power of Sound." Here are the... | |
 | 1874 - 950 pages
...Apart, like glowworms on a summer's night ; Or lovely tapers when from far they Hing A guiding ray ; or seen like stars on high, Satellites burning in a lucid ring Arouud meek Walton's heavenly memory." What we know of the life of bant Waltou is indeed but scanty,... | |
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O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, — like glowworms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like... 
