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
| 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... | |
| American poetry - 1848 - 276 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...pathless coast,— The desert and illimitable air,— THE NL / '/. PUBLIC LiD ASTOR, L*NOX TILDfcN FOUNDATIONS All day thy wings have fanned, At that far... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 472 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1847 - 390 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. Jj All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Greece - 1849 - 384 pages
...beauty to a divine source ; without feeling that "There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along- the pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.'" CHAPTER XXX1. The Muses, Graces, and Sirens. 1. THK Muses were nine sisters, daughters of Jupiter and... | |
| American poetry - 1850 - 264 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...pathless coast,-— The desert and illimitable air, — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
| John Frost - California - 1850 - 558 pages
...brink, Of weedy lake, or merge of river wide ; Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaffed ocean side ; "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along the pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not loot. " Thou'rt gone! thy... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 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, w.eary,... | |
| S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 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." The divinities of Greece were not held by the people to be mere passive phantoms. They are supposed... | |
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