 | 1822 - 418 էջ
...phantom of a blessed dream 1 Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...sleeping eye? What brighter throne can brightness 6nd To reign on than an infant's mind, Ere sin destroy, or error dim The glory of the Seraphim ! SONG.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 966 էջ
...phantom of a blessed dream ? Oh 1 that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou smilest as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions... | |
 | John Wilson - 1825 - 446 էջ
...love, and love in thee ! What wonder then, though in thy dreams Thy face with mystic meaning beams! Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those...sin destroy, or error dim, The glory of the Seraphim ? But now thy changing smiles express Intelligible happiness. I feel my soul thy soul partake. What... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 էջ
...Oh! that my spirit's eye could see Whence hurst those gleams of extacy ! That light of dreaming smil appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou...thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God ailoring! And who can tell what visions high May hless an infant's sleeping eye? What brighter throne... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 էջ
...Whence burst those gleams of extacy ! That light of dreaming-soul appears To play from thoughts ahove thy years Thou smil'st as if thy soul were soaring' To Heaven, and Heaven's God adoring I And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye? What brighter ibrone can brightness... | |
 | 1830 - 456 էջ
...previously to her eighth year. They present a captivating picture of infantile simplicity and purity. And, " What brighter throne can brightness find To reign...sin destroy, or error dim The glory of the seraphim? " » Yet, strange to say, the Rev. Robert Story affirms, " Had she then died, it was her fixed persuasion,... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 էջ
...with mystic meaning beams ! Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou -in 'li -i as if thy soul were soaring To Heaven, and Heaven's God adoring I And who can tell what... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 էջ
...with mystic meaning beams ! Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou smilest as if thy soul were soaring To Heaven, and Heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 էջ
...with mystic meaning beams ! Oh ! that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years. Thou smilest as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 էջ
...with mystic meaning beams ! Oh that my spirit's eye could see Whence burst those gleams of ecstasy ! That light of dreaming soul appears To play from thoughts...sin destroy or error dim The glory of the seraphim ? But now thy changing smiles express Intelligible happiness. I feel my soul thy soul partake— What... | |
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Thou smil'st as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God adoring! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye ? What brighter throne can brightness find To reign on than an infant's mind, Ere sin destroy, or error... 
