 | 1825 - 574 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling tbunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at tby call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities —... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...Directness, boldness, and simplicity of expression, are main features in the poem. Oh God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...whirlwind that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would have preferred the word fright to scare, and omitted the definite article... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh, God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, FOREST HYMN. 43 His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. O God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirKvind, that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages; when, at thy call, Uprises the great deep,... | |
 | 1837 - 790 pages
...Directness, boldness, and simplicity of expression, are main features in the poem. Oh God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...or fill With all the waters of the firmament The. swill dark whirlwind that uprools Ihe woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...God ! when thou Dost ware the world with tempests, set on Iire The heavens with Ialling thunderholts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament. The swift, dark whirlwind, that uproot a the woods. And drowns the villages; when, at thy call, Uprises the great Deep, and throws... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 304 pages
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. O God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities;—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. O God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...And drowns the villages; when', at thy call, Uprises ihe great deep, and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities;—who forgets not,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh, God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, FOREST HYMN. 43 His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by 1 Oh, from these sterner aspects of... | |
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God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages; when, at thy call, Uprises the... 
