The loves of the angels, a poem

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 147 páginas

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Página 132 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Página 100 - A boat at midnight sent alone " To drift upon the moonless sea, " A lute, whose leading chord is gone, " A wounded bird, that hath but one " Imperfect wing to soar upon, " Are like what I am, without thee...
Página 105 - Eternal One, With half such longing, deep desire. Love was to his impassion'd soul Not, as with others, a mere part Of its existence, but the whole — The very life-breath of his heart! Often, when from the Almighty brow A lustre came too bright to bear. And all the seraph ranks would bow Their heads beneath their wings, nor dare To look upon the effulgence there...
Página 1 - T WAS when the world was in its prime, When the fresh stars had just begun Their race of glory, and young Time Told his first birth-days by the sun ; 1 See Note.
Página 2 - ... When the fresh stars had just begun Their race of glory, and young Time Told his first birth-days by the sun; When, in the light of Nature's dawn Rejoicing, men and angels met On the high hill and sunny lawn,— Ere Sorrow came, or Sin had drawn 'Twixt man and Heaven her curtain yet!

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