 I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...  Y Traethodydd - Page 1551907Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...comes To dress them, and unswaddle death ! . '•^ _ "r**3. l THE WORLD. Eternity the other night, a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright ; round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres a vast shadow mov'd ; in which... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...Without a steel, oh, let thy power clear Thy gift once more, and grind this flint to dust! THE WORLD. 1 I saw eternity the other night, Like a great ring...And round beneath it, time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Lake a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...of thy young breath. Expecting till thy Saviour comes To dress them, and unswaddle death! THE WORLD. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...in which the world And all her train were hurl'd. The doting lover in his quaintest strain Did there complain ; Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 552 pages
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. THE WORLD. ' I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.' There is a wonderful magnificence about this; and what a Bunyan-like reality is given to the vision... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 pages
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. "I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring...Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Lake a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd." There is a wonderful magnificennce... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 394 pages
...into glory peep. " — Beyond the Veil. A little poem on The World is written in the same tone — " I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring...And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd. " And CRASHAW, in his lines to St. Theresa, expresses... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 482 pages
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the rinest fantasy and expression. THE WORLD. " I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath i. , Time in hours, days, yean, Driv'n by the spheres Ijke a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world... | |
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...Take this opening of a poem called " The World " : "I saw Eternity the other night; Like a great King of pure and endless light; All calm as it was bright...Time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres In a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled." This is the solemn background... | |
 | John Brown - 1885 - 550 pages
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. THE WORLD. ' I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.' There is a wonderful magnificence about this; and what a Bunyan-like reality is given to the vision... | |
 | John Brown - 1885 - 552 pages
...quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest phantasy and expression. THE WORLD. ' I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of...days, years, Driv*n by the spheres Like a vast shadow movM, in which the world And all her train were hurl'd.' There is a wonderful magnificence about this;... | |
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