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" BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. And watching, with eternal lids apart. Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human... "
Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards]. - Page 270
by Biographical magazine - 1853
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English sonnets by poets of the past, ed. by S. Waddington

Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 pages
...steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...the mountains and the moors. — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft...
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Sonnets of Three Centuries: A Selection Including Many Examples Hitherto ...

Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 pages
...steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The...fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast To feel...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlikc task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores,...the mountains and the moors: — No, — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft...
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English Language and Literary Criticism: English poetry

James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 pages
...steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new sofi fallen mask, No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, • Pillowed upon-my fair love's ripening...
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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and ..., Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 420 pages
...steadfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors ; No ! — yet still steadfast, still...
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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and ..., Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 364 pages
...steadfast as thou art, Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of enow upon the mountains and the moors ; No ! — yet still steadfast, still...
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...thou art — Not in lono splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Liko argent humau shores, — Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —...
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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and ..., Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 420 pages
...their priest-like task Of pure ablution, round earth's human shores ; Or gazing on the soft new-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors ; No ! — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft...
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Love-knots and bridal-bands: poems, selected and arranged by F. Langbridge

Love-knots - 1883 - 234 pages
...steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The...upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft...
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The Letters and Poems of John Keats, Volumes 2-3

John Keats - 1883 - 310 pages
...steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The...upon the mountains and the moors — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft...
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