 Oh could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 256edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...offering Beneath their feet — detested and defiled. (Ecclesiastical Sketchet.) WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...names shine still and bright ; Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lovely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen [good men Was shaped that traced the lives of these Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye We...Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart, hkeglow-wormsonasummer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to...shine still and bright; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to...shine still and bright; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...good men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. | With moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die! Mcthinks their very names shine still and bright; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman. Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to...shine still and bright | Apart — like glow-worms on a summer mght ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to...Methinks their very names shine still and bright; Apart—like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity ECCLESIASTICAL 0, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to...shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like stars... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...of, tat with whom we shall be acquainted in a future stale.— LEWIS. Saints. — The Virtues of the Oh could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Mtlhinks their very names shine still ami brijbt, Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - English language - 1883 - 160 pages
...hast finish'd joy and moan : All lovers young all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. XV. In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: Oh, could...names shine still and bright; Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on... | |
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