 Dear night! this world's defeat; The stop to busie fools; care's check and curb; The day of Spirits ; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb ! Christ's ! progress and his prayer time ; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime.  Alexander Heriot Mackonochie: A Memoir - Page xviby Eleanor A. Towle - 1890 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...circumstances under which most of the poems have been written. But the motto is a gem set in the title-page. ' Dear night ! this world's defeat ; The stop to busie...Spirits ,• my soul's calm retreat, Which none disturb !' Henry Vaughan. We cannot do better than take as our first extract, the Ode to Night's prime minister,... | |
 | Bernard Barton - English poetry - 1824 - 328 pages
... BERNARD BARTON. " Dear night ! this world's defeat ; The stop to busie fools; cares' check and curb: The day of Spirits ; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb !" Henry Vtmghan'a Site* Scin(«fain. LONDON : PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER-ROW.... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...bold And lodge alone; Where trees and herbs did watch and peep And wonder, while the Jews did sleep. " Dear night ! this world's defeat ; The stop to busie...time ; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. " God's silent, searching flight ; When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 318 pages
...check and curb ; The day of Spirits ; my foul's calm retreat Which none difturb ! Chrijl's * progrefs, and his prayer time ; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. I God's filent, fearching flight : When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1847 - 316 pages
...check and curb ; The day of Spirits; my foul's calm retreat Which none difturb ! Chrijl'i * progrefs, and his prayer time ; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. God's filcnt, fearching flight : When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...hold And lodge alone; Where trees and herbs did watch and peep And wonder, while the Jews did sleep. " Dear night ! this world's defeat ; The stop to busie...time ; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. " God's silent, searching flight ; When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...wonder, while the Jetci did sleep. Dear night ! this world's defeat ; The stop to busie fools; cares check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat, Which none disturb 1 Christ's progress, and his prayer time, The hours to which high heayen doth chime. God's silent,... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English poetry - 1856 - 330 pages
...hold And lodge alone ; Where trees and herbs did watch and peep And wonder, while the Jews did sleep. Dear night ! this world's defeat ; The stop to busie...time ; The hours to which high heaven doth chime. God's silent, searching flight : When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - English poetry - 1858 - 326 pages
...check and curb ; The day of fpirits ; my foul's calm retreat Which none difturb ! Chrift's* progrefs, and his prayer time ; The hours to which high Heaven doth chime. God's filent, fearching flight ; When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...flee away, And mix with their eternal ray ? BYRON. Dear night I this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits ;...prayer time; The hours to which high heaven doth chime. VAUGHAN. And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains: parting day Dies... | |
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