 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The Bound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks. Bryant. 340 GROVEL. GUESTS. GUIDANCE. GROVEL. WHAT seest thou there? King Henry's diadem, Inchased... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And ofler'd to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems, — in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...the root above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence,...offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. WC Vryant. O Thou, to whom, in ancient time, The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung, Whom kings adored... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 318 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest, solemn thanks And supplication. Let me, then, at least, Here, in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 320 pages
...he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the sacred influences Which, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 654 pages
...he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks." Wondering, why man should, in the more advanced and riper age of the world, forget " God's ancient... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pages
...he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks." Wondering, why man should, in the more advanced and riper age of the world, forget " God's ancient... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...roof above them, — ere he framed The loft; vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; — ss, oft the woods among • I woo, to hear thy even-song...thoe, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, 24 For his simple heart Might not resist the saored influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the... | |
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THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and... 
