 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 1100 pages
...be joy. When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, 1 cheerful will obey ; there, with new powers. Will...their suns ; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in him, in light... | |
 | Alexander Crummell, Southern Texts Society - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 265 pages
...Return thou, and all thy servants." 2 Samuel 19:14. 3. Thomas Hood, "The Death Bed," stanzas 1-3. 4. "I cannot go / Where UNIVERSAL LOVE not smiles around, / Sustaining all yon Orbs and all their Sons, / From seeming Evil still educing Good, I And Better thence again, and Better still, / In infinite... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 891 pages
...And where he vital spreads there must be joy. When even at last the solemn hour shall come. And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, 1 10 Will rising wonders sing: I cannot go Where Universal Love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon... | |
 | Richard Terry - Literary Collections - 2000 - 279 pages
...optimism becomes more emphatic: 'where HE vital spreads there must be Joy', the poet asserts, adding, 'I cannot go/ Where UNIVERSAL LOVE not smiles around,/ Sustaining all yon Orbs and all their Sons' (11. 111-13). It is not surprising that Lyttelton, when revising The Seasons after Thomson's... | |
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When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their... 
