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,—... The Retrospective Review - Page 3141824Full view - About this book
| Abiel Abbot Livermore - Bible - 1842 - 358 pages
...Jesus, in his address to the Water-fowl : — "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along thai pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. " Thou 'rt gone, the abyis of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk... | |
| Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking hillows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches...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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 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. All day thy wings, have fann'd, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, 'to the... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 286 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...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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 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. AH day thy wings have fann'd, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side 1 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... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and...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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the chafed ocean side ? There is a power2 whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast3 — 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 welcome... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 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... | |
| James Martineau - Hymns, English - 1846 - 538 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ?. 4 There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. 5 All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
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