 Thou dost make the soul A wondering witness of thy majesty, But as it presses with delirious joy To pierce thy vestibule, dost chain its step And tame its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand In the dread presence of...  The Niagara Book - Page 311by William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - 1901 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Indians of North America - 1835 - 328 pages
...presses with delirious joy To pierce thy vestibule, dost chain its step, And tame its rapture, with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand...Invisible, As if to answer to its God, through thee. DEATH OF THE REY. DR. CORNELIUS. " All ye that were about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 426 pages
...rushes with delirious joy To tread thy vestibule, dost chain its step, And check its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand...Invisible, As if to answer to its God through thee. WINTER. I DEEM thee not unlovely, — though thou com'st With a stern visage. — To the tuneful bird,... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...presses with delirious joy To pierce thy vestibule, dost chain its step, And tame its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand...Invisible, As if to answer to its God through thee. ODE. BY G. MELLE N. [Sung at Plymouth, on the anniversary of the landing of our Fathers, 22d December,... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...presses with delirious joy To pierce thy vestibule, dost chain its step, And tame its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand...Invisible, As if to answer to its God through thee. ODE. BY 0. MELLEN. [Sung at Plymouth, on the anniversary of the landing of our Fathers, sad December,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...presses with delirious joy To pieree thy vestibule, dost chain its step, And tame its rapture, with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand...Invisible, As if to answer to its GOD through thee. WINTER. thee not unlovely, though thou comest With a stern visage. To the tuneful bird, The blushing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 216 pages
...vestibule, dost chain its step, And check its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingnesp, bidding it stand In the dread presence of the Invisible, As if to answer to its God through thee. I DEEM theer not unlovely, — though thou comest With a stern visage. — To the tuneful bird, —... | |
 | Warren Burton - Nature (Aesthetics) - 1844 - 264 pages
...1'i|! And tame its rapture, with the humbling view Of its ow.n nothingness, bidding it stand *i''. In the dread presence of the Invisible, As if to answer to its God through thee." !  | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...presses with delirious joy' To pierce thy vestibule, dost chain its step. And tame its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingness ; bidding it stand In the dread presence of the Invisible, 15 As if to answer to its God through thee. LESSON XLIX. THE UNITED STATES. BANCROFT. [The extract... | |
 | William Barham - Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) - 1847 - 196 pages
...rushes with delirious joy To tread thy vestibule, dost chain its steps, And check, its rapture, with the humbling view Of its own nothingness — bidding it stand In the dread presence of th' Invisible, As if to answer to its God through thee. Hartford, Conn. LH SlGOURNEY. This will no... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...rushes with delirious joy To tread the vestibule, dost chain its step, And check its rapture with the humbling view Of its own nothingness, bidding it stand...Invisible, AS if to answer to its God through thee. MBS. SIOOURNET. LESSON LXXVII. STORY OF THE ARK AND DOVE. " TEI.L me a story, please," my little girl... | |
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