 To where the violet fades into the sky. Here, awful Newton, the dissolving clouds Form, fronting on the sun, thy showery prism ; And, to the sage-instructed eye, unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze.  National Society's Monthly Paper - Page 91855Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...unfolds, In fair proportion running from the red 205 From the white mingling maze. Not so the swain : He wondering views the bright enchantment bend Delightful...but amazed Beholds the amusive arch before him fly, 215 Then vanish quite away. Still night succeeds, A softened shade ; and saturated earth Awaits the... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - Bible - 1891 - 302 pages
...says that it breeds honey-dew. The poet Thomson tells how the rainbow appears to the swain : — " He wondering views the bright enchantment bend, Delightful,...radiant fields, and runs To catch the falling glory." The old Scandinavians said that it was a bridge uniting heaven and earth. They also seem to have had... | |
 | Landscape painting - 1895 - 270 pages
...unfold The various twine of light by thee disclos'd From the white mingling maze. Not so the boy ; He wondering views the bright enchantment bend, Delightful...fields, and runs To catch the falling glory ; but amaz'd Beholds th' amusive arch before him fly, Then vanish quite away. Still night succeeds, A softened... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...unfold The various Twine of Light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze. Not so the Swain ; He, wondering, views the bright Enchantment bend,...amusive Arch before him fly, Then vanish quite away. Still Night succeeds, A softened shade, and saturated Earth Awaits the Morning beam, to give to light,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...unfold The various twine of light, by thee disclosed, From the white mingling maze. Not so the boy ; He wondering views the bright enchantment bend, Delightful, o'er the radiant fields, and runs Beholds the amusive arch before him fly, Then vanish quite away. Still night succeeds, A soften'd shade,... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1908 - 550 pages
...unfold 210 The various twine of light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze. Not so the swain; He wondering views the bright enchantment bend Delightful...amusive arch before him fly, Then vanish quite away. Still night succeeds, A softened shade, and saturated earth Awaits the morning beam, to give to light,... | |
 | James Thomson - Poetry - 1908 - 556 pages
...unfold 210 The various twine of light, by thee disclosed From the white mingling maze. Not so the swain; He wondering views the bright enchantment bend Delightful...To catch the falling glory ; but amazed Beholds the apuiflivB ftrph hpforp him fly, Then vanish quite away. Still night succeeds, A softened shade, and... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1908 - 554 pages
...210 The various twine of light, by__thee disclosed From the white mingling maze. Not so the swain; He wondering views the bright enchantment bend Delightful o'er the radiant fields, and runs To_£alcli the. falling glory ; but amazed Beholds the amusive arch before him fly, Then vanish quite... | |
 | English philology - 1908 - 718 pages
...Philosophic Eye The various Twine of Light, by Thee pursu'd Thro'all the mingling Maze. Not so the Swain, He wondering views the bright Enchantment bend, Delightful, o'er the radiant Fields, and runs »<o To catch the falling Glory, but amaz'd B 237 Thro' the white mingling maze. C 215 illustrious... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1908 - 408 pages
.../ The various Twine of Light, by Thee pursu'd \ Thro'all the mingling Maze. Not so the Swain, Tffe wondering views the bright Enchantment bend, Delightful, o'er the radiant Fields, and runs 240 To catch the falling Glory, but amaz'd B 237 Thro' the white mingling maze. C 215 illustrious ]... | |
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