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 151af Thomas Moore - 1817 - 405 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Horatius Bonar - 1866 - 396 sider
...mountain. Down here all summer is around us, while winter sits up yonder ! "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." In the course of the evening we had under consideration the passages which record our Lord's visit... | |
| Double acrostics - 1866 - 280 sider
...to chase despair, To heal all grief, to cure all care." 1. " Now on this fair land of roses, Softlv the light of eve reposes, And like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon." 2. " At length I saw a lady within call, Stiller than chiselled marble, standing there ; A daughter... | |
| James Caughey - 1868 - 492 sider
...would have been numerous — perhaps, as a shrewd brother observed, Mont Blanc had been substituted for Lebanon! "Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And...eternal sleet ; While summer, in a vale of flowers, la sleeping rosy at his feet." But the truthfulness of its topography is one of its proofs, as well... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1869 - 436 sider
...exquisite description of Lebanon suggests, I am disposed to think, the true reading of the enigma : — ' Like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. ' The mere lists of the botanist and zoologist are in themselves repulsive and un-ideaed ; and yet... | |
| John Russell (F.E.I.S.) - 1869 - 176 sider
...(M.) " As shepherd's cur that in dark evening's shade hath tracked forth some savage beast." (Sp.) " Summer in a vale of flowers is sleeping rosy at his feet." (Moore.) " Moves in her virgin veil the gentle bride." (Rog.) " What vails the vain knight-errant's... | |
| Bessie Rayner Belloc - 1870 - 410 sider
...villages. The scenery was as Moore describes it in Lallah Rookh : — " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory,...broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon ; Whose head in misty grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sider
...tales which they tell I ByROH_ SYRIA. ШОМ "PARADISE AND THE PERI." Now, upon Syria's land of roses Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! THE MURDER....her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than s looked from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow,... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 sider
...this 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,...towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in-a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who looked from upper air O'er all the... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1872 - 662 sider
...this sigh the boon must be That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee. ' Now, upon Syria's land of roses2 Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory,...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. 1 'On the shores of a quadrangular lake stand a thousand goblets made of stars, out of which souls... | |
| James Lewis Farley - 1872 - 398 sider
...evening, one of the finest views of the town and mountains may be obtained. Kow upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes. And, like a glory,...in a vale of flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. At this hour, nothing can exceed the beauty of the view. To the west, the sky is one sheet of burnished... | |
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