 | 1865 - 426 pages
...lips she spread Unearthly breathings through the place, And shook her sparkling wreath, and shed Such lustre o'er each paly face, That like two lovely saints...From their dim graves, in odour sleeping ; While that benevolent PERI beam'd * " In the East, they suppose the Phoenix to have fifty orifices in his bill,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...lustre o'er each paly face, From their dim graves, in odour sleeping; While that benevolent Peri beamed Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls should waken. But morn is blushing in the sky ; Again the Peri soars above, Bearing to Heaven that... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...the eve of doomsday taken From their dim graves, in odor sleeping ; While that benevolent Peri beamed Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls would waken. But morn is blushing in the sky ; Again the Peri soars above, Bearing to Heaven that precious sigh... | |
 | John Cave Winscombe - 1871 - 122 pages
...unspeakably far ? * Moore has the following well-known lines :— " While that benevolent Peri beamed Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls shall wake." Or bear ye a message, enshrined in your ray, To the dwellers on earth from some sky-buried... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1872 - 660 pages
...Haps his wings with a velocity which *ets fire to the wood, and consumes himself.' — Richardson, 397 Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them, till their souls would waken ! But morn is blushing in the sky ; Again the Peri soars above, Bearing to heaven that precious sigh... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...the eve of doomsday taken From their dim graves, in odor sleeping; While that benevolent Peri beam'd Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch, o'er them till their souls would waken." CHAPTER III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF VOCALIZATION — THE LARYNX — THE VOICE — SPEECH — LANGUAGE —... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...sparkling wreath, and shed Such lustre o'er e.ich paly face, That like two lovely saints they scem'd U¡K>n all things even And if we do but watcli benevolent PERI beani'd Like their good angel calmly keeping Watch o'er them, till their soul« would... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 240 pages
...the eve of doomsday taken From their dim graves, in odor sleeping While that benevolent Peri beamed Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls would waken. But morn is blushing in the sky ; Again the Peri soars above, Bearing to Heaven that precious sigh... | |
 | John Swain (Writer of Verse.) - 1877 - 436 pages
...lips she spread Unearthly breathings through the place, And shook her sparkling wreath and shed Such lustre o'er each paly face, That like two lovely saints...their dim graves, in odour sleeping ; — While that benevolent Peri beam'd Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o er them, till their souls would... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pages
...Unearthly breathings through the place, And shook her sparkling wreath, and shed Such lustre over each pale face, That like two lovely saints they seem'd Upon...their dim graves, in odour sleeping;— While that benevolent Peri beam'd Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls would... | |
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Thus saying, from her lips she spread Unearthly breathings through the place, And shook her sparkling wreath, and shed Such lustre o'er each paly face, That like two lovely saints they... 
