 And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And,...  The Suffolk literary chronicle - Page 241838Full view - About this book
 | 272 pages
...(may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel, writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold : And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel, writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold : And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision... | |
 | George Washington Montgomery - Kindness - 1841 - 232 pages
...(may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlighl in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to ihe presence in the room he said, ' What writest thou '!' The vision... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - American poetry - 1849 - 450 pages
...(may his tribe increase!) Awoke, one night, from a deep dream of peace ; And saw, within the moonlight in his room, — Making it rich, and like a lily in...angel, writing in a book of gold! Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold : And to the Presence in the room he said, — " What writest thou ? " —... | |
 | American literature - 1842 - 530 pages
...(may his tribe increase,) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,...An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben-Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ? " the angel... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1844 - 314 pages
...(may his tribe increase) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel writing in a book of gold :— Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thoul"—The vision... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1844 - 330 pages
...(may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,...An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And, to the presence in the room, he said, "What writest thou?" The vision... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...(may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight of his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,...angel, writing in a book of gold. — Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?"— The vision... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in the room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold ; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, " What writest thou? " The vision... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...lmay his tribe increase) Awoke one night from a diM-p dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room. Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing ina book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room, he said,... | |
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