 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...  Life in Asia - Page 265by Mary Cate Smith - 1897 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pages
...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...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 374 pages
...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 flower* Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pages
...roses Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON j Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous must^have been... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 798 pages
...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...in a vale of flowers. Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all th' enchanted regions there, How beauteous mustjhave been... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pages
...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 - 422 pages
...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...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...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...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...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...in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet. To one, who look'd from upper air O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been... | |
 | 1872 - 348 pages
...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 And whitens with...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...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...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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