 O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.  The Etonian - Page 4131824Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...of the animals floating in his sight ; and when from his lips breaks a blessing upon them, — " O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...declare. A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And 1 bless'd them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I bless'd them unaware : " The selfsame... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...floating in his sight ; and when from h ifar off, beblessing upon them, — ' nething in mist, and "0 happy living things! no tongue » Their beauty might declare. A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on mo, And I blessed... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 610 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a Sash of golden fire. " 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware : Sure my kind star took pity on me, And I bless'd them unaware. " The selfsame moment I could pray... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure, my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 792 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 588 pages
...transcendent worth of their common vital source. Whea Coleridge said of the creatures of the great calm, — "Oh, happy, living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare. A spring of love gashed in my heart, And I blessed them, unaware, Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed... | |
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