 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Medicine in literature - 1850 - 310 pages
...on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...away they fly, Where darkness might be bottled up And what would happen to the land, And how would look the sea, If in the bearded devil's path • . Our... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature, Modern - 1851 - 320 pages
...on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...to the left nor right, He asks them not their names j One spurn from his demoniac heel, — Away, away they fly, Where darkness might be bottled up And... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1854 - 324 pages
...his way, And singing as he flies ; ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...away they fly, Where darkness might be bottled up And what would happen to the land, And how would look the sea, If in the bearded devil's path . Our earth... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 pages
...is on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzmg planets shrink before The spectre of the skies. Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...not their names ; One spurn from his demoniac heel, — IAway, away they fly, Where darkness might be bottled up And sold for " Tyrian dye." And what would... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...on his way, And singing as he flies; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And Satellites...he flames ; He turns not to the left nor right, He aske them not their names ; One spurn from his demoniac heel, — Away, away they fly, Where darkness... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The specter of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...He flashes and he flames; He turns not to the left or right, He asks them not their names ; One spurn from his demoniac heel, — Away, away they fly,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 pages
...on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...away they fly. Where darkness might be bottled up And what would happen to the land, And how would look the sea, If in the bearded devil's path Our earth... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites...and he flames ; He turns not to the left nor right, One spurn from his demoniac heel, — Away, away they fly, Where darkness might be bottled up And sold... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...you are a flat, Go very quietly and drop A button in the hat ! THE COMET.—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE Comet! He is on his way, And singing as he flies;...million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail ! And what would happen to the land, And how would look the sea, If in the bearded devil's path Our... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...flat, Go very quietly and drop A button in the hat I THE COMET.— OLIVEH WENDELL, Ho: THE Comet I He is on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing...million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail I And what would happen to the land, And how would look the sea, If in the boarded devil's path Our... | |
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THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail ! On, on by... 
