 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 páginas
...moons and planets roll ! " Oliver Wendell Holmes has a humorous poem about " The Comet," beginning, " The COMET ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies...Ah ! well may regal orbs turn blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail ! " And Beranger has a pathetic... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 500 páginas
...sometimes makes one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well 8 THE COMET. THB Comet ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies...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 - 1896 - 398 páginas
...might be quite as well Hushed up among one's friends ! Comet. THE Comet ! He is on his way, And Binging 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 !... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne, William Leonard Lemmon - 1891 - 376 páginas
...What signs of old age does he bear ? Does the poet think himself culpable for making sport of him ? 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 - 1899 - 396 páginas
...makes 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!... | |
 | 1907 - 438 páginas
...Persians and Xerxes? His judges, or Socrates? Pilate or Christ? + * The Comet BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. The Comet! He is on his way, And singing as he flies;...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 - 1908 - 452 páginas
...sometimes makes one up Of such sad odds and ends, It really might be quite as well 8 THE COMET. THB Comet ! He is on his way, And singing as he flies...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 !... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 páginas
...The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, 45 Let them smile, as I do DOW, At the old forsaken bough THE COMET The Comet! He is on his way, And singing...The spectre of the skies: Ah, well may regal orbs burn blue, 5 And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail!... | |
 | Horatio William Parker - 1915 - 216 páginas
...AP PP p pp Oliver Wendell Holmes Andantino The Comet Margaret Ruthven Lang: Composed for this Series The com-et! He is on his way, And sing-ing as he flies; The if | 17 fc> sfz J. whizzing planets shrink be-fore The spec-tre of the skies. Ah! s/z s w? Broad i_... | |
 | H. E. Licks - 1917 - 224 páginas
...appearance of a comet incites a feeling of awe, and the words of the poet Holmes arise in the memory: The Comet! He is on his way, And singing as he flies;...The spectre of the skies. Ah! well may regal orbs bum blue, And satellites turn pale, Ten million cubic miles of head, Ten billion leagues of tail! CHAPTER... | |
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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... 
