 Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; — a disciplined and populous...  Poems - Sida 26efter William Cullen Bryant - 1855Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1834 - 428 sidor
...hewing the Penlelicus to forms Ol symmetry, and rearing on Us rock The glittering Parthenon. Thete ample fields. Nourished their harvests, here their...their stalls the bison lowed, And bowed his maned shoulders lo the yoke All dav this desert n.urmured wiib their toils, Till twilight blushed, and lovers... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 sidor
...some light being at length thrown on his eventful and mysterious history. VoL. II.— H VILLAGES. " These ample fields Nourished their harvests : here...bison lowed, And bowed his maned shoulder to the yoke. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 sidor
...for some light being at length thrown on his eventful and mysterious history. VOL. II.—H VILLAGES. Nourished their harvests : here their herds were fed,...bison lowed, And bowed his maned shoulder to the yoke. " These ample fields Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 310 sidor
...Probation 255 The Natural Bridge .... 270 Colonel Burr 277 RETROSPECT OF WESTERN TRAVEL. VILLAGES. " These ample fields Nourished their harvests : here...were fed, When haply by their stalls the bison lowed, Aud bowed his maned shoulder to the yoke. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 sidor
........ .272 RETROSPECT or WESTERN TRAVEL. VILLAGES. " These ample field* Nourished their harvest! : here their herds were fed, When haply by their stalls the bison lowed, A ml bowed his maned shoulder to the yoke. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft... | |
 | 1840 - 322 sidor
...the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers', or that rise In the dim forest', crowded with old oaks', Answer'. A race that long has passed away Built them';...toil, the earth', while yet the Greek Was hewing the Peritelicus* to forms Of symmetry', and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon'.! These ample... | |
 | 1840 - 544 sidor
...oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Haap'd, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, aad rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourish'd their harvests, here... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 sidor
...oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to lorms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourish'd their... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 sidor
...[Greek 'if symmetry, and rearing on its rock The elittcring Parthenon. These ample fields Nnuri<h'd their harvests; here their herds were fed, When haply by their stalls the bison low'd, And how'd his maned shoulder to the yoke. All day this desert murmur'd with their toils, Till... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 324 sidor
...oaks, Answer. A race, that long has pass'd away, Built them ; a disciplined and populous race Heap'd, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was...rock The glittering Parthenon. These ample fields Nourish'd their harvests, here their herds were fed, When haply by their stalls the bison low'd, And... | |
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