THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the... The Southern Review - Seite 4461832Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1879 - 1042 Seiten
...the Past, are lyrics showing that his sympathies were deep and true. How pathetic are these lines : i Childhood with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age,...on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions and are bound. ' Thon hast my better years, Thon hast my earlier friends—the good, the kind ; Yielded to thee with... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1828 - 384 Seiten
...the barriers round thy dark domain ; And fetters sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit...with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us towards the ground — And last — man's Life on earth Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.... | |
| 1832 - 868 Seiten
...arc the barriers round thy dark domain And fetters sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit...ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Cbildhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age.that draws us to the ground And last, man's life... | |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 64 Seiten
...strains of one of the poets of our own land :* Far in thy realms withdrawn Old empires sit in sullermess and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown. To thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered,... | |
| 1837 - 830 Seiten
...a poem of fourteen quatrains — three feet and four alternately. In the second quatrain, the lines And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb are, to us, disagreeable. Such images are common, but at best, repulsive. In the present case there... | |
| 1836 - 378 Seiten
...of one of the poets of our own land : f • * Rulentem diccre vcrum Hon. f Bryant. Far in thy realms withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom,...ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown. To thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered,... | |
| 1837 - 412 Seiten
...the barriers, round thy dark domain, And fetters sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit...on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions and are bound. " Thon hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends — the good, the kind, Yielded to thee with... | |
| 740 Seiten
...Hold nil that enter thy nnbrealhing reign. " Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullennesa and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within...Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and ar« bound. Bryant. " In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown — to thee Earth's wonder... | |
| 1867 - 738 Seiten
...Hold all that enter thy nnbrealhing reigo. " For in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in tnllenneis and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within...its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the p<n»' And last, Mail 9 Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and an bound 127 " In thy abysses... | |
| 1839 - 558 Seiten
...barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. For in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages goneLie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that... | |
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