 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...the spirit of our " national poet," saying, " Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train." Such persons have been led to believe the monastic state in every form an outrage to humanity and a... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Gome, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulder drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state With even step, and musing... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Europe - 1855 - 456 pages
...suggests the subject, in the following lines : " Come pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, Marble. Other artists. And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1856 - 154 pages
...now he addresses "divinest Melancholy": — " Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn. Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...view, O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 424 pages
...prosperity prevail. SHW MELANCHOLY. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Solier, steadfast and dcmaie, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn. Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step,... | |
 | California - 1858 - 602 pages
...she were alive, might take a pattern from : — Come pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stale of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - English language - 1860 - 736 pages
...Shakespeare. First, then, the verses from H Penseroso : "Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train." Here the epithet " darkest," and the character and attributes of the Divinity who is clothed in grain,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might beseem. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing...stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. 2o2 Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the... | |
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Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes... 
