 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 ページ
...The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks... | |
 | 1866 - 956 ページ
...middle age is free. The setting suns of youth are crimson and gold ; the setting suns of middle age Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Youth is the slave of beautiful faces, and fine eyes, and silver-sweet voices — they distract, madden,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 ページ
...The innocent brightness of a new-bom day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality : Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks... | |
 | 1850 - 662 ページ
...innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." ***** It appears to us, that the full beauty of these and other passages in this, justly the most famous... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1852 - 314 ページ
...innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet — The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." END OF BOOK I. BOOK II. RESOLUTIONS. CHAPTER I. There was a hardness in his cheek There was a hardness... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 ページ
...innocent brightness of a new-born day, Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1852 - 1284 ページ
...innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet — The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." END OF BOOK I. BOOK II. • RESOLUTIONS. CHAPTER I. There was a hardness in his cheek There was a hardness... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 ページ
...The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality : Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks... | |
 | Portugal. [Appendix.] - 1852 - 134 ページ
...than ever to appreciate the pathos of him who sang — " The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch on man's mortality." The spring is also the season when the traveller can best calculate on witnessing... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1853 - 810 ページ
...and breaks That humour interposed too often makes. (0) The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. (h) A cotter howkin in a sheugh Wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke, Baring a quarry, and siclike, Himsel',... | |
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The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. 
