 Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,—...  Retrospective Review - Page 314edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? 1. Where. 3. Marshy, splashing. There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the... | |
 | Geraldine Ellis Watson - Nature - 2003 - 377 pages
...approaching bad weather, these lines from William Cullen Bryant's poem, "To a Waterfowl," came to mind: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert and the illimitable air— Lone, wandering, but not lost. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...sink On the chafed ocean-side? 1. Where. 3. Marshy, splashing. 2. Hunter of birds. 4. Margin, edge. There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast— The desert5 and illimitable airLone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far... | |
 | William Roetzheim - Poetry - 2006 - 760 pages
...brink of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, or where the rocking billows rise and sink on the chafed ocean side? There is a Power whose care teaches thy...illimitable air, — lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fann'd at that far height, the cold thin atmosphere: yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome... | |
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