 Thou smil'st as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God adoring! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye! What brighter throne can brightness find To reign on than an infant's mind, Ere sin destroy or error dim...  English 18th Century Dances - Page 1411812Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...love, and love in thee! What wonder then, though in thy dreams Thy face with mystic meaning beams! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...destroy, or error dim, The glory of the Seraphim? But now thy changing smiles express Intelligible happiness. I feel my soul thy soul partake. What grief!... | |
 | 700 pages
...with mystic meaning beams! Oh! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy? That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...destroy, or error dim, The glory of the Seraphim? But now thy changing smiles express . Intelligible happiness. I feel my soul thy soul partake. What... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 706 pages
...love, and love in thee! What wonder then, though in thy dreams Thy face with mystic meaning beams! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...soaring To Heaven, and Heaven's God adoring! And who dan tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye? What brighter throne can brightness... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1824 - 966 pages
...ecstasy 1 That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou smilest as »f thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God...sin destroy, or error dim, The glory of the seraphim ? Oh ! vision fair ! that I could be Again, as young, as pure as thee ! Vain wish ! the rainbow's radiant... | |
 | Europe - 1824 - 966 pages
...ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts r.bove thy years. Thou smilest as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's...sleeping eye ? What brighter throne can brightness fiiul To reign on than nn infant's mind, Ere sin destroy, or error dim, The glory of the seraphim ?... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1824 - 962 pages
...phantom of a blessed dream ? Oh I that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou tmilest as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, ond heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pages
...of a blessed dream ? ' ' Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of extasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...sin destroy, or error dim, The glory of the seraphim ? ' * Oh ! vision fair ! that I could be Again, as young, as pure as thee ! Vain wish ! the rainbow's... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...seem, The phantom of a blessed dream !" " Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of extacy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To...sin destroy, or error dim, The glory of the seraphim ?" " Oh ! vision fair ! that I could be Again, as young, as pure as thee ! Vain wish ! the rainbow's... | |
 | John Wilson - English poetry - 1812 - 340 pages
...Thy face with mystic meaning beams ! Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of extacy ; That light of dreaming soul appears To...an infant's sleeping eye ? What brighter throne can brightuess find To reign on than an infant's mind, Ere sin destroy, or error dim, The glory of the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1814 - 786 pages
...phantom of a blessed dream ? Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstacy I That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...if thy soul were soaring , To Heaven, and Heaven's Got! adoring ! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye ? What brighter... | |
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