 The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains : Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be — Melted to one vast Iris of the West,...  Poetry of Byron, chosen by M. Arnold - Page 98by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Henry Stuart Foote - 1841 - 426 pages
...TERMINATION OF THE TEXAN REVOLUTION. "MAGNA EST VERITAS, ET PREVALEBIT." Heaven is free From clouds, hut of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the Day joins the great Eternity ; While, on Hie other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats throughthe azure air, a region... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced. XXVII. Far far beneath the shallow maid He left believing and betray'd. Such shame — л sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset...sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli-s mountains; heaven is fiee From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris... | |
 | 1843 - 544 pages
...place about the year 1830, respecting the manner in which one of his friends had applied Lord Byron's " vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past eternity," and which William Taylor censured as bordering too closely on mysticism, when he was reminded that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...thy mane — as I do here. [An Italian Evening on the BaxJa of the Brenta.] [From ' Childe Harold.1] ne. Thus widely removed from the fair, Where my vows,...devotion, I owe ; Soft hope is the relic I bear, And my alpiue height Of blue Friuli's mountains: heaven i« free From clouds, but of all colours seems to... | |
 | Alfred Hawkins - 1844 - 234 pages
...the poet fails to convoy an adequate idea of the brilliant appearance of the heavens as they 'e Melt to one vast Iris of the west, Where the day joins the past Eternity." On the left of the road, two miles from the city, is Holland House, interesting not only from its having... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 pages
...of sky and sea, the city, the islands adjacent, and the distant mountains, was indeed enchanting. " The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset...mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colors seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the Day joins the past Eternity : —... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Aragon being engaged in a perpetual crusade at home against the infidels in Spain. TWILIGHT IN ITALY. THE moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset...glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's l mountains ; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, Melted to one vast Iris of... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...for ever.' ADVENTURE AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. WHO docs not remember the exquisite idea of Byron ? — ' The moon is up, and yet it is not night, Sunset divides Uio sky with her.' And it was upon such an evening, in one of the most beautifully retired spots to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced. xxvn. The moon is up, and yet it is not nightSunset partings, such as press The life from out young hearts,...nights so sweet such awful morn could rise ? XXV. Dion's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest ! XXVIII. A single star is at... | |
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