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... Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Side 132af Thomas Moore - 1845 - 278 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 sider
...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,...flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow,... | |
| 1818 - 798 sider
...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,...flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been the glow,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 sider
...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,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 sider
...the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towen And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at his feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc/' It is a singular... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 sider
...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,...flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 sider
...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 sider
...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,...flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow,... | |
| 1872 - 348 sider
...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 sider
...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,...flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow,... | |
| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 sider
...all the verdant wealth That crowns fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid waters strayed And mountain-cedars stretched... | |
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