| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| Bible stories, English - 1848 - 272 pages
...— Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales, Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn declarations all Of the... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...distance made more sweet, Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul. 74. " The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green, — and, poured round oil, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales, Streching in pensive quid ness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadow green; and, poured round all Old ocean's gray arid melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations... | |
| American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...ancient as the sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| Bible stories, English - 1848 - 272 pages
...rivers that move In majesty — and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn declarations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
| Ezra Stiles Gannett - Consolation - 1849 - 268 pages
...good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...complaining brooks, That make the meadows green, and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the... | |
| English literature - 1849 - 472 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are bnt the solemn decorations all Of... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
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