 | Derk Buddingh - American literature - 1853 - 842 pages
...musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere hc is aware. When thoughU Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, aud shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow housc, Make thee to shudder, and grow... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...j THANATOPSIS.* (WC BRYANT.) To him who, in the love of Nature, | holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language : | for his gayer...hours, | She has a voice of glad'ness, | and a smile, * Thanatopsis (Greek), from thanatos, death, and opsis, sight a view of death. And eloquence of beairty... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speiki A various language ; for his gayer hoars She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware," — Nature, just as she is, is enough for a picture, for an infinity of pictures, even by a Clande... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 588 pages
...him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various langnage ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and...with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Thcir sharpness ere he is aware," — Nature, just as she is, is enough for a picture, for an infinity... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...Huntington Library. Thanatopsis. To him who in the love of Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms, she speaks / A various language, for his gayer...beauty, and she glides / Into his darker musings with a soft / And healing sympathy that steals away I Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts / Of... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - Law - 1984 - 456 pages
...the Nature and Principles of Taste. To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1991 - 283 pages
...which would characterize Crockett. To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. . . . Go forth, under the open... | |
 | Frances F. Dunwell - History - 1991 - 314 pages
...spiritual solace in nature. It begins: To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer...she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...come, peal following peal on — He's too smooth and too polished to hang any zeal on. Thanatopsis She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...the wilderness alone. THANATOPSIS To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
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To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing... 
