 Whither, 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...  The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea - Sida 248efter James Fenimore Cooper - 1823 - 293 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Robert Northmore Greville - 1848 - 434 sidor
...keep your souls from blight! Earth will forsake—Oh! happy to have given TO A WATEKFOWL. WC BRYANT. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 sidor
...boasted name, Unmentioned in holy songs — unheralded by fame. WB Flower. To A WATEBFOWL. WHITHEB midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...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... | |
 | 1849 - 472 sidor
...with the British public, but we shall be forgiven, we trust, for quoting it again. TO A WATER POWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1849 - 384 sidor
...Genevieve. And oft he turns his truant eye, And pauses oft, and lingers near; TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHEB, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye /• f Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted... | |
 | 1850 - 264 sidor
...'mid the desolate main, While the wonder and pride of your works remain. TO A WATERFOWL. BY WC BRTANT. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 298 sidor
...lonely flight of the water-fowl. Veneration prompted the inquiry, " Whither 'midst falling dew, When glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through...their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way I" Sometimes, in musing upon genius in its simpler manifestations, it seems as if the great art of... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 sidor
...beautiful lines, "To a Waterfowl," that are, or should be, familiar to al readers of American poetry : " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? " All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 380 sidor
...lingers near ; But when he marks the reddening sky, He bounds away to hunt the deer. TO A WATEEFOWL. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sidor
...Stoop. With what adjectices or verbs are the following abstract nouns connected. Depth. Flight. Height. WHITHER ' 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way,2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 sidor
...woodland dress, And bring no book ; for this one day We 'll give to idleness. WORDSWORTH. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...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... | |
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