Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But... Little Millie and Her Four Places - Page 205by Margaret Maria Gordon - 1855Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 634 pages
...Nature's temple tesellate, What numerous emblems of instructive duty Your forms create! 'Neath cloister'd boughs, each floral bell that swingeth, And tolls...in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer: — Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that... | |
| Benjamin Maund - 1824 - 264 pages
...Nature's temple tesselate, What numerous emblems of instructive duty Your forms create ! 'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth, And tolls...in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 pages
...God's sleepless eye, Send from their chalices a sweet and holy Incense up on high ; "Neath cluster'd boughs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its...in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. In contemplating the scenery of our route, much as we were struck with the variety of objects which... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...emblems of instructive duty Your forms create ! 'Neath cloistered boujhs, each floral bell that swin^cth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever rtngeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1835 - 496 pages
...every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. 'Neath cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth, And tolls its...air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth j A call to prayer ; Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1835 - 270 pages
...fancy numerous teachers, From loneliest nook. 'Neath cloistered toughs each floral bell that sw ingeth. And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer ; Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that... | |
| 1837 - 276 pages
...numerous emblems of instructive duty Your forms create Î 1 N: ¡itli cloistered boughs, each floral hell that swingeth, And tolls its perfume on the passing...Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer ; Not to the dome: where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that... | |
| M. H. Cowell - Plants - 1839 - 140 pages
...withdrawn from the world, and wandering in his favorite retreats, he finds i " 'Neath cloistered houghs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air Makes Sabbath in the woods, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes whose crumbling arch and column Attest the... | |
| Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...Nature's temple tesselate, What numerous emblems of instructive duty Your forms create ! 'Neath clustered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its...in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer.. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 456 pages
...known, 1 think the above-named Horace is partial to some bell-flower, he speaks so touchingly of the " Floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air." But however that may be, it is an obvious fact that petflowers are remarkably common. Witness the tributary... | |
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