 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...state, — Confirm the tales her sons relate 1 WILLIAM COLUXS. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, Ш7. FROM never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way ; Yet simple POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. 589 The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...glittering starlight, without thee, is sweet!" JOHN DEYDEN: 1631—1700. A Song for St. Cecilia's Say. FBOM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal...order to their stations leap ; And Music's power obey, Prom harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
 | 1882 - 324 pages
...reverence and devotion. "We believe in the music of the spheres, of which Dryden eloquently sang : "From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame...order to their stations leap And Music's power obey. Prom harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...universal frame began. When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And cou'd not heave her head, 5 The tuneful voice was heard from high : Arise, ye...moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Musick's pow'r obey. 10 From harmony, from heav'nly harmony This universal frame began; From harmony... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 pages
...admiration were as suddenly hushed by the eagerness of the House to listen, and the awful importance And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was...than dead.' Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, of the subject." Dr. Oliver Holmes makes a simile that is pat and pertinent, when he pictures Helen... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...about, grow less and less, With here and there a pawn. III. A SONG FOR ST CECILIA'S DAY,1 168T. 1 FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame...order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony 1 ' St Cecilia's... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...meaning motion fans fresh our wits with wonder. GM HOPKINS 1879 A song for St Cecilia's Day 1687 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame...order to their stations leap And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
 | Roger Copeland, Marshall Cohen - 1983 - 606 pages
...den gave it its best known rendering in English poetry, keeping strictly to the old tradition. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame...order to their stations leap And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began; From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
 | George Every, Richard Harries, Bishop Kallistos Ware - 1984 - 276 pages
...century who became the patroness of church music. Dryden writes in his 'Song for St Cecilia's Day': From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame...order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began; From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...CECILIA'S DAY, 1687 From harmony, from heav'niy harmony This universal frame began. When Nature undemeath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her...to their stations leap, And music's power obey. 10 From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all... | |
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In... 
