 QUEEN of the silver bow ! — by thy pale beam, Alone and pensive, I delight to stray, And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream, Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my...  Elegiac Sonnets - Seite 5von Charlotte Smith - 1786 - 44 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Tobias Smollett - 1783 - 504 Seiten
...'And, while I gaze, thy mild and placid light • Sheds a foft calm upon my troubled breaft.; And oft 1 think, fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have reft : The fufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Releas'd by death, to thy benignant fphere, '• And the fad children... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1789 - 144 Seiten
...crofs thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a foft calm upon my troubled bread ; And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in...thy orb, the wretched may have reft : The fufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Releas'd by death to thy benignant fphere, • And the fad children of... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 Seiten
...way. And while I ga?e, thy mild and placid light Sheds a foft calm upon my troubled bread ; And oft l think, fair planet of the night ! That in thy orb the wretched may have reft ; The fufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Releas'd by death, to thy benignant fphere ; And the fad children of defpair... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 Seiten
...cross thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my trouhled hreast; And oft I think, — fair planet of the night, That in thy orh the wretched may have rest: The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, !;••!• .•••'<)... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast; And oft I think,—fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have rest: The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Keleus'd by death—to thy benignant sphere; And the... | |
 | 1808 - 356 Seiten
...the good, and revered by the great and the learned. For the Literary Magazine. EvENING MEDITATIONS. " And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have rest !" CRIED MITIO, as he was walking one evening, and gazing on the placid countenance of the moon,... | |
 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 Seiten
...thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast ; • And oft I think— fair planet of the night, . .-'"' That in thy orb the wretched may have rest. The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, lleleas'd by death — to thy benignant sphere ; And... | |
 | 1814 - 286 Seiten
...thy wny. 2. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast : And oft I think,— fair Planet of the Night, — That in thy Orb the wretched may have rest : The Sufferers of the Earth perhaps may go — Releas'd by Death, — to thy benignant Sphere... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 Seiten
...thy way. Still while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast ; And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have rest. The suft'rers of the earth, perhaps, may go, Rfleas'd by death, to thy benignant sphere ; : And... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...BOOK IV. 703 And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast ; And oft I think, fair planet of the night! That in thy orb the wretched may have rest; The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Releas'd by death, to thy benignant sphere; And the... | |
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