Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Oh if you could have seen him as I saw himso patient, so considerate: the sorrows of the nation in his heart and its burdens on his shoulders; but confident, calm, serene, with the benignant humility of a man sent by God," Olympia added almost reverently.

Nay, Silva, think of me as one who sees A light serene and strong on one sole path Which she will tread till death...

On my left lay "a little lane serene," with stone fences half hid by blackberry-bushes "A little lane serene, Smooth-heaped from wall to wall with unbroken snows.

It was dawn: a sweet pure air came on their faces; and they beheld a sky of the loveliest oriental sapphire, whose colour seemed to pervade the whole serene hollow from earth to heaven.

And full of hope day followed day 15 While that stout Ship at anchor lay Beside the shores of Wight; The May had then made all things green; And, floating there, in pomp serene, That Ship was goodly to be seen, 20 His pride and his delight!

"There live, alas! of heaven-directed mien, Of cultured soul, and sapient eye serene, Who hail thee Man!the pilgrim of a day, Spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay, Frail as the leaf in autumn's yellow bower, Dust in the wind, or dew upon the flower, A friendless slave, a child without a sire.

Not yet out of the west the roses of sunset were withered; In the deep blue above light clouds of gold and of crimson Floated in slumber serene, and the restless river beneath them Rushed away to the sea with a vision of rest in its bosom.

No; there were the trees, the grass, the distant roar of the city, and the peaceful waterfair, smooth, serene, like the face of a friend.

Dies down the clamour when the dark draws near; Strange looms the earth in twilight of the West, Lonely with one sweet star serene and clear, Dwelling, when all this place is hushed to rest, On vacant stall, gold, refuse, worst and best, Abandoned utterly in haste and fear.

Every mood has something offered for its entertainment in the grand autumns of our Blue-Ridge dominated land: chiefly the thoughtful, however, the serene and happy.

At her approach the bolts were drawn, And inward swung the temple gate, Revealing in the light of dawn The marble form immaculate, The effigy of heaven's queen, Sublime, beneficent, serene.

[I] I spare to tell of what ensued, the life In common thingsthe endless store of things, Rare, or at least so seeming, every day 110 Found all about me in one neighbourhood The self-congratulation, and, from morn To night, unbroken cheerfulness serene.

Oh if you could have seen him as I saw himso patient, so considerate: the sorrows of the nation in his heart and its burdens on his shoulders; but confident, calm, serene, with the benignant humility of a man sent by God," Olympia added almost reverently.

What sudden beams dispel the clouds so fast, Whose drenching rains laid all our vineyards waste? The spring, so far behind her course delay'd, On the instant is in all her bloom array'd; 1120 The winds breathe low, the element serene; Yet mark what motion in the waves is seen!

Long may ye roam these hermit waves that sleep, In birch-besprinkl'd cliffs embosom'd deep; These fairy holms untrodden, still, and green, Whose shades protect the hidden wave serene; Whence fragrance scents the water's desart gale, The violet, and the [iii] lily of the vale; 1793.