 Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at...  Lalla Rookh - Seite 100von Thomas Moore - 1859 - 172 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 Seiten
...' Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And,...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 798 Seiten
...'• Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be "That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And,...his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 Seiten
..." Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And,...a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 Seiten
...the world. One lordly mountain indeed remains immutably the same, Whose head in wintry grandeur towen And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Lies sleeping rosy at his feet. And well may it be called the " Sovereign Blanc/' It is a singular... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 Seiten
..." Than even this sigh the boon must be " That opes the Gates of Heaven for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And,...from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below ! Fair gardens, shining streams,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 Seiten
...CHATEAUBRIAND'S Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his Beauties of Christianity. Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBArvoi*, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 Seiten
..." Than ev'n this sigh the boon must be " That opes the gates of Heav'n for thee." Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And,...from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below Fair gardens, shining streams,... | |
 | 1872 - 348 Seiten
...in magnificent repose ; and of it one of our poets says : " Like a glory, the broad sun Hangs o'er sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." The Lebanon range is properly an immense tract of mountainous country, about 100 miles in length. Its... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 426 Seiten
...suffice to explain the mystery and soften the harshness of the foregoing criticism. " Now, upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And,...from upper air O'er all the' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below ! Fair gardens, shining streams,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 Seiten
...cedars, palms, and all the verdant wealth That crowns fair Lebanon's aspiring brow." " Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And,...a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet." MOORE'S Paradise and the Peri. " Down in a vale where lucid waters strayed And mountain-cedars stretched... | |
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