 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
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way alone that pathless coast, — The desert and 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... | |
 | Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard - 1846 - 348 pages
...Bryant, which are as applicable to our present circumstances, as to the solitary bird upon the wing : ' There is a Power whose care, Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The dqeert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost ! : ' ' I feel the justness of the rebuke... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide. Or where the rocking billows rise and siuk On the chafea ocean side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy...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... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 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 fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 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. DI All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 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...illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. AH day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Greece - 1847 - 400 pages
...and terrible, without tracing that sublimity and beauty to a divine source ; without feeling that " There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along...and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost." CHAPTER XXXL The Muses, Graces, and Sirens. 1. THE Muses were nine sisters, daughters of Jupiter and... | |
 | Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 pages
...honk,1' delivered in a stentorian voice, calls upon each companion in the long line to follow him. <( There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — ixmo wandering, hut not loat. " He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...brink Of weedy lake or margin 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. it 2 All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere : Yet, stoop not,... | |
 | Robert Northmore Greville - English poetry - 1848 - 434 pages
...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...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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