Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam... Poems: Now First Collected - Page 160by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 572 pages
...rousing herself like a strong man After sleep, aud shaking her invincible locks: metbinks I see in her an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her...undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unskaling her long abused sight at ihe fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise... | |
| 1823 - 736 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks, I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| William Godwin - Great Britain - 1824 - 526 pages
...they can scarcely imagine a race of intellectual creatures, "like an eagle, muing her mighty youth, and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance b." They for themselves rather resemble that " noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...-patinn, rousing herself like a strong man^iier sleep, gnd shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, muing her mighty youth, and kindling...at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| 1831 - 642 pages
..."rousing herself as a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks — as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 320 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long. abused sight at the fountain ilself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Liberalism (Religion) - 1834 - 972 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.' Dream on, great poet — ' Methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her, as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
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