All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows;... The Household Book of Poetry - Page 56by Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 28 pagesFull view - About this book
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1821 - 526 pages
...where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? ' All day thy wings have fann'd At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet...; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.' ART. XIX. — An Essay concerning the Free -Agency of Man, or the Powers and Faculties of the Human... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — ^ Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far...fellows : reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone ! the abyss_of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
| William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...coast,— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings hare fann'd, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet...among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy shelter'd nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallow'd up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...— The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fann'd At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet...among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy shelter'd nest. Thou 'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallow'd up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply... | |
| Agnes Strickland - Animals - 1830 - 230 pages
...care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far...fellows : reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone : the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...coast,— The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fann'd, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet...among thy fellows; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy shelter'd nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallow'd up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply... | |
| Pierce Egan - Amusements - 1832 - 426 pages
...Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far...fellows : reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest, Thou'rt gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on ray heart Deeply hast sunk... | |
| Fens, The (England) - 1834 - 332 pages
...Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air ; — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far...fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest * Written by William Cullen Bryant, an American poet of considerable talent and taste ; the following... | |
| American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. i All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height,...fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone ; the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
| 1837 - 408 pages
...along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable airline wandering, but not lost. " All days thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold...fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. " Thou'rt gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk... | |
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