 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 420 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...ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors ; No ! — yet still steadfast, still... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 364 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...ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of enow upon the mountains and the moors ; No ! — yet still steadfast, still... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlikc task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores,...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 - 1882 - 1002 pages
...thou art — Not in lono splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Liko argent humau shores, — Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —... | |
 | Love-knots - 1883 - 234 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, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 310 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, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 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,... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 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, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,... | |
 | John Keats - 1883 - 608 pages
...stedfast as thou 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— Lord Houghton records that, after Keats... | |
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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... 
