James Montgomery Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.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

• 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

• Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.

  James Montgomery

  Stars, Lying, Sky

  James Montgomery (1817). “A New and Complete Edition of the Works of James Montgomery: Including Several Poems Now First Collected; Together with a Sketch of His Life. To which are Added, Some Original Pieces, by Another Pen”, p.104

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