 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...art, — 1795—1821 -L' Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - English poetry - 1880 - 202 pages
...sleepless eremite, A STUDY. 175 The moving waters at thfir priest-like task Of pure ablution rounJ cariffs human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - Volunteers - 520 pages
...ceases ; it is like the tides, and may, in its constant efforts to remove impurities, be likened to ' The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round Earth's human shores.' If hospital work is done in this spirit Sunday will not be less sacred, but each day will be equally... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...were steadfast as thou artNot in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors. — No -yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendor hnug aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids hen the feelings were young, and the world was new;...lone exile, remembered of none ; My high aims abando moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...1795—1821 •*-' art, — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors : — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,... | |
 | Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - 268 pages
...the seas it looks down upon, lapping the coasts, are like priests washing the feet of pilgrims — " The moving waters at their priest-like task of pure ablution round earth's human shores." To Wolfe, in his " Ode on Sir John Moore's Burial," the moon struggles to send her light down to earth,... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 pages
...steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors. — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Sonnets, English - 1882 - 378 pages
...steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The...soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new sofi fallen mask, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, • Pillowed upon-my fair love's ripening... | |
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BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. And watching, with eternal lids apart. Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human... 
