 | Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting - 1858 - 124 pages
...noiseless there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless field of upper air. And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of etone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own." How old... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...clear, deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea : And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting...waves his own. And when the ship from his fury flies, When the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...beautiful form, Is sporting amid those bowers of stonr, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storm* Has made the top of the waves his own : And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skie*, And demons are waiting the wreck... | |
 | 1854 - 512 pages
...field of upper air. And lite, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of {tone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave hU own." How old and gray-headed Mr. Grandfather is. At Boston, in 1783, he heard the bells ring... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful ibrms, Is sporting arnid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms Ilas made the top of the waves his own: And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices... | |
 | 1854 - 550 pages
...position for examination. There we may indeed convince ourselves that the poet is right; that— " Life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone." There we may study the habits of the living creatures about which we have read, it may be with a feeling... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...clear, deep sea , And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting...waves his own. And when the ship from his fury flies, When the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...clear, deep sea And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean .Are bending like corn on the upland lea : And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting...waves his own. And when the ship from his fury flies, When the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Shells - 1855 - 106 pages
...billows flow, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air. And life in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting...of storms, Has made the top of the waves his own." \Ve give below two figures of the Argonaut, one of which represents him crawling at the bottom of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...clear, deep sea; A nd the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Arc bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting...stone, And is safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms H;is made the top of the wave his own : And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices... | |
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The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, when the wrathful Spirit of... 
