 | 1864 - 150 pages
...eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter...air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair ; Scattered immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous semblance of a flock at rest. BLOOMFIELD.... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1864 - 408 pages
...eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still more serene) Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair ; Scatter'd immensely... | |
 | David Grant - 1865 - 428 pages
...the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter...air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair Scattered immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous semblance of a flock at rest. These, to the... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1865 - 428 pages
...winter. Bloomfield, in the following lines, has noticed the appearance of the sonder-cloud : — " For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky still more serene) Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair ; Scatter'd immensely... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1870 - 424 pages
...eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still more serene,) Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they 're fair ; Scatter'd immensely... | |
 | Charles Leeson Prince - 1871 - 270 pages
...on the eye, Passing the source of light, and then away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they; For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter...air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair; Scattered immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous semblance of a flock at rest. These to the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. ll thee so, For Thou art present wheresoe'er I go....diamonds bright, Thy breath is Afric's spicy gale, they 'n> fair ; Scattered immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous semblance of a flock at rest.... | |
 | John Glyde - 1872 - 526 pages
...and the " shepherd's flock " to denote what one of our poets has described with so perfect a touch : Detached in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow and countless as they're fair, Scattered immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous semblance of a flock at rent. Weather rhymes... | |
 | Spencer Timothy Hall - 1873 - 478 pages
...eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still more serene,) Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they 're fair ; BcatterM immensely... | |
 | Christian life - 1874 - 446 pages
...the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. For yet above these wafted clouds are seen (In a remoter sky, still more serene) Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're, fair : Scatter'd immensely... | |
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The rising vapours catch the silver light ; Thence fancy measures, as they parting fly, Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they. 
