 God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark whirlwind that uproots...  Poems - Sida 42efter William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 276 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1825 - 492 sidor
...Dost scare the world with tempests, setl'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderholts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power. His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1825 - 574 sidor
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling tbunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at tby call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities —... | |
 | 1826 - 192 sidor
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me... | |
 | 1826 - 524 sidor
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1826 - 192 sidor
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 sidor
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God! when thoo Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities ;—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 sidor
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities ; — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and... | |
 | 1831 - 442 sidor
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 sidor
...enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh, God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | 1837 - 830 sidor
...Directness, boldness, and simplicity of expression, are main features in the poem. Oh God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The...whirlwind that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would have preferred the word fright to scare, and omitted the definite article... | |
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