Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at... The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc ... - Page 52by Thomas Moore - 1838 - 419 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 418 pages
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 pages
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses 3 Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...vale of flowers, . , Is sleeping rosy at his feet. • . I y • » To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pages
...Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses* Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flower* Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 798 pages
...this sigh the boon must be "That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below ! Fair gardens, shining streams, with ranke... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory,...his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a... | |
| Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...this sigh the boon must be " That opes the gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
| 1872 - 348 pages
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 420 pages
...the mystery and soften the harshness of the foregoing criticism. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
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