 | Charles Henry Jones - American poetry - 1876 - 424 pages
...flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? Ah ! who to sober...of paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? HON. WILLIAM R. SPENCER, JOB. O LY Beelzebub took all occasions To try Job's constancy and patience.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass ! Ah ! who to sober...brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage to its wings ? JAME8 GLA88FORD. [1772- -2 THE DEAD WHO HAVE DIED IN THE LORD. Go, call for the mourners,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ! Oh, ! Stanzas. When midnight o'er the moonless skies Her pall of transient death has spread, When mortals... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...remarks The ebbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond spaiks, That dazzle as they pass ? Oh, who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? WILLIAM R. SPENCER. ABSENCE. 127 As to the Distant Moon. AS to the distant moon The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...remark; The ebbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? 0, who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. GOING AND COMING. GOING — the great round Sun, Dragging the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...remarks The ebbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? 0, who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings i WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. GOING AND COMING. GOING — the great round Sun, Dragging the... | |
 | Epigrams - Epigrams, English - 1877 - 130 pages
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, Which dazzle as they pass ? Oh ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Inscription for an Inkstand. USE this with caution, and avoid some pain : Words spoken vanish ; written... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass I Oh, who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise Mveient Their plumage for his wings I Stanzas. When midnight o'er the moonless skies The shade of youthful... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1881 - 704 pages
...flowers! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass! Ah ! who to sober...brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage fbr its wings? WIFE, CHILDREN, AND FRIENDS. WHEN the black-lettered list to the gods was presented... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass! Oh, ly laughed And waved its bannered gold, And from the Lombard's BETH GELERT; OR, THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND. The spearmen heard the bugle sound, Aud cheerily smiled... | |
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OO late I stayed ! forgive the crime, — Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of... 
