 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 80 Seiten
...the song And reckless shout resounded. The year 5. Solemnity and Sublimity. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching...and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green,—and, poured 'round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 Seiten
...ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
 | 1852 - 44 Seiten
...Do not be behind Nature, if you are behind the times. Dotnn €ast anir ©nt " The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun : the vales Stretching in pensive...quietness between The venerable woods: rivers that move j* In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green." * * * # " These are the gardens... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 Seiten
...— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move 4° In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 Seiten
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured all round, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Of the great tomb of man. Here is no arena... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 Seiten
...pleasant dreams. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietude between — The venerable woods — rivers that move...complaining brooks That make the meadows green — and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - 1984 - 456 Seiten
...cosmic size both to create sublime effect and to insure an anthropocentric universe. 64 Nature's forms "are but the solemn decorations all / Of the great tomb of man," while sun and stars shine down as mourners upon the "one mighty sepulchre" that is earth. Enveloping... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 Seiten
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 Seiten
...the noblest expression of this anthropomorphism is Bryant's "Thanatopsis": ... The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old oceans gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...meadows green; and, pour'd round all, Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
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The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy... 
