 | 1824 - 494 pages
...Around them;—and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. Butlet me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence...plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 492 pages
...Around them; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence...plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh God ! when tbou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Around them;—and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence...plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Around them ; and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in thy presence,...plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | Emily Taylor - Christian poetry - 1829 - 300 pages
...Around them; and there have been holy men, Who deem'd it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, In thy presence,...thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind, that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages; when, at thy... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1831 - 424 pages
...Around them;—and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in thy presence,...plainer footsteps shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - Fore-edge painting - 1832 - 262 pages
...Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence...plainer footsteps shrink And tremble, and are still. Oh, God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1832 - 410 pages
...Around them;—and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in thy presence,...plainer footsteps shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
 | John Pierpont - American literature - 1832 - 292 pages
..."he passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, ind tremble, and are still. O God ! when thou )ost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts^ or fill, Vith all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind, that uproots the woods, Lnd drowns... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1833 - 424 pages
...Around them; and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in thy presence,...thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind, that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages; when, at thy... | |
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often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. O God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with... 
