"Cherubin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peach-bloom air, With the great white lilies that reached to his throat Like a stained-glass bo'sun there, And our little ship's chaplain, puffing and red, A-starn as we onward stole, With the disk of a lily behind his head Like a cherubin's aureole. ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... seven holy angels which present the prayers of the saints." The Book of Enoch (ch. xx.) names the other archangels, "Uriel, Rufael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqael, and Gabriel, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the cherubin." In the Celestial Hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite, a chapter is devoted to archangels, but their names are not recorded, or their number given. On the other hand, "The teaching of the oracles concerning the angels affirms that they are thousand thousands ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron |
