 And human frailties, were forgotten quite: Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which...  Every Saturday - Page 1241872Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 590 pages
...oft forsake Tor Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. ' Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...bright As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born jars3 And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...nature's paces glass'd by sunbeams on tbe lake. ' " Like the Chaldean, he conld watch the stars, Till be had peopled them with beings bright , As their own...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pages
...would oft forsake For nature's pages glass'd by sunbeam* on the lake. " Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings bright As their own beami; and earth, and earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite: Could he have kept... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. 1' XIV. Like the Chaldean,, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | Bucks chronicle - 1823 - 116 pages
...yourself, Immortal Venus! be my helper. SONNET, TO THE PLANET VENUS. " Like the Chaldsan, he would watch the stars, " 'Till he had peopled them with beings bright " As his own beams - •. - ." CHILDE HAROLD, Canto 3. Beautiful planet ! that, with silvery stream, Greetest... | |
 | Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824 - 400 pages
...l'air sans bornes. Alors revinrent ses aceès de délire, et, semblable à l'oiseau emprisonné, qui As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born jars, And human frailties , were forgotten quitc : Could he bave kept bis spirit to that flight He had beea happy; but this clay uill sink Its... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...would oft forsake For nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite: Gould he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy: but this clay will sink Its spark immortal,... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...earthborn jars. And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...lake. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings bright Аз their own beams ; and earth, and earthborn jars. And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit i<> that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...would oft forsake i For Nature's pages, glassed by sunbeams on the lake. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars. Till he had peopled them with beings...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; but this clay will siuk Its spark... | |
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