With amethyst and topaz — and the place Lit up, most royally, with the pure beam That dwells in them. Or haply the vast hall Of fairy palace, that outlasts the night... The Idle Man - Page 571821Full view - About this book
| 1853 - 640 pages
...the night, And fades not in the glory of the sun ; Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts, And crossing arches and fantastic aisles Wind from...brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars." — Lattimore. NAMES. IT is certain that the Saxons changed the appellation of nearly all the places... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...glory of the sun ; Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches, and fantastick aisles Wind from the sight in brightness, and are...cloud Look in. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of sporting fountains, frozen as they rose, And fixed, with all their branching jets, in air, And all... | |
| English literature - 1832 - 604 pages
...night, And fades not in the glory of the sun ; — Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches ; and fantastic aisles Wind from...Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou secst no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky and the white drifting cloud Look in. Again... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches, and fantastic aisles Wind from me sight in brightness, and are lost Among the crowded...cloud Look in. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of sporting fountains, frozen as they rose, And fixed, with all their branching jets, in air, And all... | |
| John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...There the blue sky, and the white drifting cloud Look in. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of sporting fountains, frozen as they rose, And fixed, with all their branching jets, in an1, And all their sluices sealed. All, all is light, Light without shade. But all shall pass away... | |
| United States - 1839 - 546 pages
...the sun ; Where crystal columns send forth slender shaft* And crossing arches ; and fantastic isles Wind from the sight in brightness, and are lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, Thou sccat no cavern roof, no palace vault ; There the blue sky and the white drifting clouds Look in. Again... | |
| United States - 1839 - 558 pages
...slender shafts And crossing arches; and fantastic isles Wind from the sight in brightness, and ore lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, Thou seest no cavern roof, no palace vault; 1'lim the blue sky and the white drifting clouds Look in. Again the wildered fancy dreams . Of spouting... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1841 - 418 pages
...outlasts the night, And fades not in the glory of the sun; Where crystal columns send forth slender shafts And crossing arches, and fantastic aisles Wind from...Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye : — Thou Beest no cavern roof, no palace vault; There the blue sky, and the white drifting cloud Look in. Again... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 286 pages
...crossing arches ; and fantastic aisles A WINTER PIECE. 169 • Wind from the sight in brightness, and axe lost Among the crowded pillars. Raise thine eye, — Thou seest no cavern roof, np palace vault ; There the blue sky and the white drifting cloud Look in. Again the wildered fancy... | |
| United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...stem, the long, low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The glassy floor. • • • Raise thine eye, — Thou sees't no cavern roof, no palace vault ; There the blue iky, and the while drifting cloud Look in. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains frozen... | |
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