| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hangs in his well. TO A WATERFOWL. BY WC BRYANT. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hangs in his well. TO A WATERFOWL. BY WC BRYANT. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...or you either 1 but to satisfy my own curiosity. LESSON CXI. To a Waterfowl. — BRYANT. 1 WHITHEH, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way 1 2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 502 pages
...district of New-York. J. FAOAM. STEE10TTFBK. (2) AliP CO., FE1HTIRS. MERCEDES OF CASTILE. CHAPTER I. " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue ThyKjSary way?" BRYANT. THE slumbers of Columbus were of short duration. While his sleep lasted it... | |
| John William Carleton - 1840 - 548 pages
...genius as genuine and unaffected sensibility. " Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heaven» with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...plighted faith again renew — We meet, O joy ! no more to sever. TO A WATERFOWL. WILLIAM C. BRYANT. WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1841 - 418 pages
...of its flight, Till the receding rays are lost to human sight. To a Waterfowl. — BRYANT. WHITHEB, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| Birds - 1842 - 294 pages
...when kindly winds shall speed us To the land we wish to see, Then, sweet captive, thou shalt leave us, TO A WATER-FOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
| J. Cypress - American poetry - 1842 - 274 pages
...woodcock getting up by its side. We are off. Reader, farewell. * COLLINEOMANIA. NO. IV. DUCK SHOOTING. " Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ?" WE wonder if the Poet ever got any answer to that question. We will bet a bag of buckshot, that... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Taylor - Language and languages - 1842 - 250 pages
...present opportunity, and whether young or old, gay or grave, you may, if you will, be the better for it. Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly tha fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the... | |
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