James Montgomery Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

  James Montgomery

  Eye, Blue, Hyacinths

  James Montgomery (1860). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: In Six Volumes. Greenland ; Miscellaneous poems ; Narratives ; Translations from Dante”, p.225

• Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.

  James Montgomery

  Prayer, Fall, Eye

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”

• The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

  James Montgomery

  Death, Stars, Eye

  James Montgomery (1861). “Poems ... To which is added a memoir of the author. A new edition, with illustrations”, p.292

• When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

  James Montgomery

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.323

• When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

  James Montgomery

  Eye, Sacrifice, Lambs

  James Montgomery (1860). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: In Six Volumes. Original hymns ; Appendix of posthumous poems”, p.104

• Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Light

  James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162

• There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

  James Montgomery

  Flower, Eye, Weather

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.315

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