 Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?  The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ... - Pagina 32door John Newbery - 1762 - 252 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Susannah B. Mintz - 2003 - 276 pagina’s
...important source of his own birth. In a sweeping gesture he enlists "thou enlightened earth . . . / Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, / And ye that live and move"—in short, all the "fair creatures"—to tell him "how came I thus, how here?" (274-77), thinking... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - 2006 - 238 pagina’s
...instinctive motion up I sprung . . . "Thou Sun," said I, "fair light, And thou enlightened Earth so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and...that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? 10 Not of myself: by some great Maker, then, In goodness and in... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 pagina’s
...illumination. Adam's apostrophe to the sun, Thou Sun, said I, fair Light, And thou enlight'n'd Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye Hills and Dales, ye Rivers, Woods, and...that live and move, fair Creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power... | |
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