| Harp - 1836 - 380 Seiten
...fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maze of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1837 - 344 Seiten
...flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thon the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river...The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, bat not lost. All day (hy wings have fann'd At that far height the cold thin atmosphere; Yet sloop... | |
| 1837 - 232 Seiten
...darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Or where the rocking billows rise and gink On the chafed ocean side? .* There is a Power whose...Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fann'd J At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though... | |
| 1837 - 790 Seiten
...abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy furm. There is a power who.se care Teaches thy way along thai pathless coast — The desert, and illimitable air, • Lone, wandering, but not lost. The Fortit Hymn consists of about a hundred and twenty blank Pentameters, of whose great rhythmical... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 874 Seiten
...fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maize of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean's side ? There is... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 936 Seiten
...fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thec wrong, As darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maize of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean's side Ï There is... | |
| Edwin Guest - 1838 - 476 Seiten
...fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaf'd ocean's side ? &c. This is a very sweet and, at the same time, a truly American picture. The... | |
| 1838 - 602 Seiten
...mistakes not its course ; it deviates not from iti track. " There is a Power whose care" Teaches its way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. " How different i« it with man ! How slow is the process by which he acquires a knowledge of objects... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 404 Seiten
...mistakes not its course, it deviates not from its track. " There is a Power whose care Teaches its way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. " How different is it with man ! How slow is the process by which he acquires a knowledge of objects... | |
| 1838 - 544 Seiten
...painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maze of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side ? There ¡sa Power whose care Teachee thy way along that pathless coast The desert and illimitable... | |
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