Aloft their sooty banners rear Round my poor captive soul, and dare Pronounce me prisoner of hell. But thou, my Sun, and thou, my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field ; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates... The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Side 28af English poets - 1790Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 sider
...thou my Sun, and thou my Shield, Wilt save me in the hloody field; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates a day, And drives the troops of Hell away. Bappy the times; hut ah ! the times are gone When wondrous power and radiant grace Round the tall arches... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 sider
...thou, my shield, Wilt save me i« the bloody field ; Break, glorious brightness, shoot one glimm 'rinc ray, One glance of thine creates a day, And drives the troops of hell away. 3 Happy the times, but ah! the times are gone [grace When wondrous pow'r and radiant. Round the tall... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 sider
...my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field; [ray, Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering One glance of thine creates a day, And drives the troops of hell away. Happy the times, but ah ! those times are gone, When wondrous power and radiant grace Round the tall arches of the temple shone,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 sider
...Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field; [ ra y» Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering One glance of thine creates a day, And drives the troops of Hell away. Happy the times, but ah! those times are gone When wondrous power and radiant grace Round the tall arches of the temple shone,... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1837 - 272 sider
...Thou, my Sun, and Thou, my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field, Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates a...the troops of hell away. Happy the times — but ah ! those times are gone When wondrous power and radiant grace Hound the tall arches of the temple shone,... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 sider
...Thou, my Sun, and Thou, my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field ; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray; One glance of thine creates a...drives the troops of hell away. Happy the times, but ah ! those times are gone, When wondrous power, and radiant grace, Bound the tall arches of thy temple... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 sider
...Thou, my Sun, and Thou, my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field ; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray ; One glance of thine creates a...drives the troops of hell away. Happy the times, but ah ! those times are gone, When wondrous power, and radiant grace, Round the tall arches of thy temple... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1854 - 472 sider
...thou, my Sun, and thou, my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field ; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates a...radiant grace Round the tall arches of the temple shone, And mingled their victorious rays : Sin, with all its ghastly train, Fled to the deeps of death... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1854 - 464 sider
...thou, my Sun, and thou, my Shield, Wilt save me in the bloody field ; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates a...radiant grace Round the tall arches of the temple shone, And mingled their victorious rays : Sin, with all its ghastly train, Fled to the deeps of death... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1854 - 472 sider
...thou, my Sun, and thou, my Shield', Wilt save me in the bloody field; Break, glorious Brightness, shoot one glimmering ray, One glance of thine creates a...times are gone When wondrous power and radiant grace '. Bound the tall arches of the temple shone. And mingled their victorious rays: • Sin, with all... | |
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