Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore-- For the rare and
radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Nameless here for evermore.
She was already pale, but on hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her beautiful,
radiant eyes.
Its
radiant face looked down smiling on me; it beckoned with its little hand, and floated on again, leading me as the Star led the Eastern sages in the olden time.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow -- sorrow for the lost Lenore -- For the rare and
radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -- Nameless here for evermore.
"Let the man turn and look upon Issus, knowing that those of the lower orders who gaze upon the holy vision of her
radiant face survive the blinding glory but a single year."
"Fading, with the Night, the clouds of ignorance, and the deadly blight of sin, and the silent tears of sorrow: and ever rising, higher, higher, with the Day, the
radiant dawn of knowledge, and the sweet breath of purity, and the throb of a world's ecstasy!
"Oh, yes!" said Anna,
radiant with a smile of happiness, and not understanding a word of what Betsy had said.
I started up and beheld a
radiant form rise from among the trees.
But after all, a
radiant peace settled upon her when she at last found herself alone.
Rain from the mountains of Ki-Sho Fled swiftly with a tearing breeze; The sun came
radiant down the west, And greener blushed the valley trees.
Thee Father first they sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal King; thee Author of all being, Fountain of Light, thy self invisible Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit'st Thron'd inaccessible, but when thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud Drawn round about thee like a
radiant Shrine, Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appeer, Yet dazle Heav'n, that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil thir eyes.
For the last time the wild cherry-tree bloomed,--wonderful blossom, glittering with tears, and gloriously
radiant with stormy lights of wild passion and wilder hopes.