 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 3von Charlotte Smith - 1789 - 83 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...and woe Forget, in thee, their cup of forrow here. O ! that I foon may reach thy world ferene, Poor wretched pilgrim — in this toiling fcene I* Almoft... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1786 - 68 Seiten
...crofs thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a foft calm upon my troublcd breaft; And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in...thy orb, the wretched may have reft: The fufferers af the earth perhaps may go, Releas'd by death— to thy benignant fphere, And the fad children of... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1786 - 64 Seiten
...crofs thy way. And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light Sheds a foft calm upon my troubled breaft ; And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in thy orb, the vvretched may have reft : Thc fufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Releas'd by death to thy benignant... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1789 - 140 Seiten
...crofs thy way. And while I ga2e, thy mild and placid light Sheds a foft calm upon my troubled breaft ; And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in...benignant fphere, And the fad children of defpair and woe _ Forget in thee, their cup of forrow here. Oh ! that I foon may reach thy world ferene, Poor wearied... | |
 | 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...benignant fphere ; And the fad children of defpair and woe Fbrget, in thec, their cup of forrow here. О! that I foon may reach thy world ferenc, Poor weatied... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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