 TO THE RAINBOW. TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and...  The Practical Teacher - Página 481883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1898 - 344 páginas
...philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven...optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed -of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When science from creation's face Enchantment's... | |
 | 1898 - 344 páginas
...heaven ! Can all that optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When science from creation's...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of... | |
 | James Sime - 1900 - 288 páginas
...could be wished. In his lines " To the Kainbow," written six years after, in 1819, he says — ' ' When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws ! " The idea, like the feet in the last line, is somewhat halting. INDEX Amid, 121. Asteroids, 72,... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1901 - 388 páginas
...philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven....optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamed of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of... | |
 | 1901 - 488 páginas
...To teach me what thou art. I Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, ; A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven....that optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, I* ( . As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? 8. Point out the principal uses of... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 páginas
...childhood's sight, A mid-way station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and Leaven. — A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, dream'd of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1902 - 192 páginas
...To teach me what thou art ; — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight. A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven....that Optics teach unfold Thy form to please me so, 10 As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow 1 When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1904 - 316 páginas
...Philosophy To teach me what thou art. — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven....form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 728 páginas
...(465). It was intended that the nuptials should be celebrated at Cashmere. MOORE, Lalla Rookh. optics. Can all that optics teach, unfold | Thy form to please me so? CAMPB., To the Ralnb., III. Yet those same bleared optics had a strange penetrating power. HAWTHORNE... | |
 | 1903 - 652 páginas
...Disenchantment frequently dogs the steps of science, and poetry is apt to flee away. Campbell well says — " When science from creation's face Enchantment's veil...lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws. " The moon majestically sailing through the starry skies must always, however, be an object of supreme... | |
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