 midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy...  Retrospective Review - Page 314edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Science - 2007 - 417 pages
...will bear jepetition here : — TO A WATER-FOWL. Whither, "midst falling dew, While glow the heavani with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy...solitary way! Vainly the fowler's eye - Might mark thy diatant iight to do thee wrong, AM, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st... | |
 | S. P. Linn - 2007 - 448 pages
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 | Schuyler T. Wallace - Social Science - 2007 - 345 pages
...considered by some anthologists to be in the top one hundred most popular American poems, is To a Waterfowl. Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong As, darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Susan Warner (1819-1885) and Anna Bartlett Warner... | |
 | Mary Harmon Weeks - Child rearing - 1914 - 332 pages
...its course. How like the water fowl he was! That night he wrote the matchless song to a water fowl : "Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of dayj Far, through their rosy depths, dost them pursue Thy solitary way?" And then following it through... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 2008 - 600 pages
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