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Visions: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. C.— BURNS — The Vision. Last lines.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!— DRYDEN — Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I. L. 238.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul.— GRAY — The Bard. III. 1. L. 11.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said- "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."— LEIGH HUNT — Abou Ben Adhem and

the Angel. It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright, Of that rare happiness, which even on earth Heaven gives to those it loves.— LONGFELLOW — The Spanish Student. Act III. Sc. 5.

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.— LOWELL — She Came and Went.

Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimæras dire.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 628.

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 763.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.— THOS. LOVE PEACOCK — Castles in the Air. St. 1.