I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless... The New Monthly Magazine - Página 2981853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1851 - 812 páginas
...tiiey are all unchained again. The cloud* Sweep over with the shadows, and beneath The surface roils and fluctuates to the eye ; Dark hollows seem to glide along, and chose The sunny ridges. Still this great solitude Is quick with life. Myriads of insects, gaudy as... | |
| Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - 386 páginas
...gentler swell, Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless furever. Motionless 't No — they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep...hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges. * * * * Man hath no part in all this glorious work ; The hand that built the firmament hath heaved... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 páginas
...Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed, And motionless for ever.—Motionless ?— No—they are all unchained again. The clouds Sweep over with...hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges. Breezes of the South! Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, And pass the prairie-hawk that,... | |
| Daniel S. Curtiss - 1852 - 384 páginas
...rounded hillows fixed, And motionless forever. Motionless ? No—they are all unchained ngain. The clouda Sweep over with their shadows, and, beneath, The surface...to the eye ; Dark hollows seem to glide along and chai-c 'The sunny ridges. * * * * Man bath no part in all this glorious work ; The hand that built... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 páginas
...And motionless forever. — Motionless ? — No — they are all unchain'd again. The clouds ?n xp over with their shadows, and, beneath, The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye ; Diirk hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges. Breezes of the south! Who tons the... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 páginas
...impression" of the poet's art, as the subject seems capable of. Very graphic, however, are the lines — Lo ! they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if...* His house is at the foot of a woody hill, facing Hempstead Harbour, to which the flood tide gives the appearance of a lake, bordered to its very edge... | |
| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1853 - 288 páginas
...bending of the reedy grass, or the tossing of the golden flowers, or the slow moving clouds, which " Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath The surface...seem to glide along, and chase The sunny ridges—" 1 Yet on the upland prairies this is rarely or never seen. The motion of tall grass would give to these... | |
| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1853 - 284 páginas
...bending of the reedy grass, or the tossing of the golden flowers, or the slow moving clouds, which " Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath The surface...: Dark hollows seem to glide along, and chase The suimy ridges — " 1 Yet on the upland prairies this is rarely or never seen. The motion of tall grass... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...billows fixed, And motionless for ever. — Motionless ? — * Excursion. VOL. XXXI NO. 1. Book IV. CY B by the wsy, would appear favorable to the " consecration and the poet's dream," without excluding the... | |
| Martha McCannon Thomas - 1854 - 410 páginas
...with all its rounded billows fixed, And motionless forever. Motionless ? No ! they are all unchain'd again. The clouds Sweep over with their shadows, and...hollows seem to glide along, and chase The sunny ridges. Breezes of the South ! Who toss the gold and flame-like flowers, And pass the prairie hawk, that, poised... | |
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