 We watched adown that glade of fire Celestial Iris floating free; We saw the cloudlets keep in choir Their dances on the sea; The scarlet, huge, and quivering sun Feared his due hour was overrun,— On us the last he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus  The renewal of youth and other peoms - Page 94by Frederic William H. Myers - 1882Full view - About this book
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...Maderia thus Drowned in a sunset glorious, The Holy Harbor fading far Beneath a blaze of Cinnabar. 4. We watched adown that glade of fire Celestial Iris...he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus' world. 6. Then all is twilight ; pile on pile The scattered flocks of cloudland close, An alabaster wall,... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - 1882 - 252 pages
...crimson day, — Sea, and sea-wrack, and rising higher Those purple peaks 'twixt cloud and fire. III. But oh the cone aloft and clear Where Atlas in the...change could tell, Or feet bewildered turn again, From Teneriffe the darkness fell Head-foremost on the main : — A hundred leagues was seaward thrown The... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 pages
...Fire-opalescent wilderness! O pathway by the sunbeams ploughed Betwixt those pouring walls of cloud! We watched adown that glade of fire Celestial Iris...he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus' world. Then ere our eyes the change could tell, Or feet bewildered turn again, From Teneriffe the darkness... | |
 | 1883 - 378 pages
...Fire-opalescent wilderness ! O pathway by the sunbeams ploughed Betwixt those pouring walls of cloud ! We watched adown that glade of fire Celestial Iris...he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus' world. Then ere our eyes the change could tell, Or feet bewildered turn again, From Teneriffe the darkness... | |
 | 1893 - 322 pages
...sunbeams ploughed Betwixt those pouring walls of cloud ! We watched adown that glade of fire Celestrial Iris floating free, We saw the cloudlets keep in choir...he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus' world. Then ere our eyes the change could tell, Or feet bewildered turn again, From Teneriffe the darkness... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - 1893 - 294 pages
...Fire-opalescent wilderness ! 0 pathway hy the sunbeams ploughed Betwixt those pouring walls of cloud ! The scarlet, huge, and quivering sun Feared his due...he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus' world. TENuEIFrE. [FWH MYEKS.] No wonder that the ancients made gods of the elements, so fit are they to inspire... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - 738 pages
...Fire-opalescent wilderness ! O pathway by the sunbeams plought d Betwixt those pouring walls of cloud ! We watched adown that glade of fire Celestial Iris...he blazed, and hurled His glory on Columbus' world. Then ere our eyes the change could tell, Or feet bewildered turn again, From Teneriffe the darkness... | |
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