 | Frances Mary Owen - 1880 - 202 Seiten
...comforting and restoration. In the last sonnet of all we have a. wonderful parting thought of it. Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art. Not in...lids apart Like Nature's patient sleepless eremite, A STUDY. 175 The moving waters at thfir priest-like task Of pure ablution rounJ cariffs human shores,... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - 520 Seiten
...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... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 Seiten
...sleep, seeing I fast and pray. cccxt "DRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou 1795—1821 •*-' art, — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 Seiten
...Being's lease, My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads; Yet would I on this very midnight cease RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast To feel... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 420 Seiten
...clouds — he for the last time lifted up his trembling voice between heaven and earth — " Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art, Not in...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) - 1882 - 364 Seiten
...clouds — he for the last time lifted up his trembling voice between heaven and earth — " Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art, Not in...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... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 426 Seiten
...up his trembling voice between heaven and earth — " Bright star ! would I were steadfast as them art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 Seiten
...few! [Keate's Last Sonnet.'] Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 Seiten
...COMPOSED ON LEAVING ENGLAND. BRIGHT Star! would I were steadfast as thou art,— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids...patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlikc task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask... | |
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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... 
