 When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his...  Poems - Page 202by William Cowper - 1786Full view - About this book
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 558 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence. his treasures are supplied. He seldom discoursed on secular matters without happily and naturally throwing... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India's spicy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is even as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India's spicy... | |
 | John Bickerton Williams - Dissenters, Religious - 1830 - 356 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. Often did our author thank God for the frequent occasions he had for the exercise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India's spicy... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...those pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ! Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.' " From this time to the summer of 182G, with the exception of a month's confinement... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis even as if an angel shook his wings; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. So when a ship, well freighted with the stores The sun matures on India's spicy... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide. That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.' ' Cowper,' as Mr. Hay ley justly observes, ' accomplished, as a poet, the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis even as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied. We must not omit a most splendid specimen of Cowper's poetic genius, entitled... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, "Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings : Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures were supplied. Thus occupied with thoughts of God, reading occasionally, or more frequently... | |
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