 FOR a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranced yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in Heaven some airy pageant sees. In outline dim and vast Their fearful shadows...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 3111869Full view - About this book
 | John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. Numbers xxiv. 16, 17. O FOR a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1827 - 398 pages
...Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. Numbers xxiv. 16, 17. O FOR a sculptor's hand, That them might'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | John Keble - Religious poetry - 1837 - 442 pages
...and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sbeth. Numbers xxiv. 16, 17. O FOR a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in Heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | John Keble - 1842 - 332 pages
...to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life, through the same, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.] O FOR a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand,* Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...sculptor's hand, That thou miglit'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating on the Eastern breexe." This is the true poetic fire of Gray's "Bard," not...language which approached the Biblical seers with butud breath and vague surmises a hundred years ago. Look at the spirited song of the manna gatherers... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Seth.—NUM. xziv. lf>, 17. O FOR a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranced yet open gaze Fixed on the desert haze, As one who deep in Heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...Keble, in his picture of Balaam foretelling the happiness of Israel, and the rising of the Star: — O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze ; Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | John Keble - Church year - 1856 - 406 pages
...shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. Numbers xxiv. 16,17. O FOB a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sath. — NOM. xxiv. 18, 17. O FOR a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranced yet open gaze Fixed on the desert haze, As one who deep in Heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 pages
...Keble, in his picture of Balaam foretelling the happiness of Israel, and the rising of the Star : — 0 for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy...stand, Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze ; Thy tranc'd yet open gaze Fix'd on the desert haze, As one who deep in heaven some airy pageant sees.... | |
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