 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 páginas
...one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing...The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail !... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1850 - 310 páginas
...one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing...The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail !... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1851 - 320 páginas
...distant years, Or on some foreign shore, Sure I can take my Bible oath, I 've seen that face before. THE COMET. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing...The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail !... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1852 - 316 páginas
...one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing...The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail !... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1852 - 340 páginas
...one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing...whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies ; All ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 páginas
...bright mysteries. THE COMET. One of the semi-humorous, semi-serious poems of OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzmg planets shrink before The spectre of the skies. Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1859 - 690 páginas
...In one fair bumper let us toast them all 1 THE COMET. DT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ТПЕ Comet ! He ie on his way, And singing as he flies; The whizzing...The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And Satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail !... | |
 | 1859 - 338 páginas
...the rate she is scampering now, Will reach Acton some minutes before me." THE COMET. HORACE SMITH. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies; The whizzing planets shrink before Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And Satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...the burden of her lay !) " Passing away ! passing away !" Ex. XXVIII.— THE COMET. O. \v. HOLMES. THE comet ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies ; The whizzing planets shrink before The specter of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 páginas
...one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! THE COMET. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And singing...The spectre of the skies ; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail !... | |
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THE Comet! He is on his way, And singing as he flies; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies; Ah ! well may regal orbs burn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail! On, on by whistling... 
