 midst falling dew, While glow the heavens 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 crimson sky, Thy...  History of Lee County - Page 301881 - 873 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 492 pages
...lingers he beside the hill ? Far, in the dim and doubtful light, Where woody slopes a valley leave, Seek.st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide. And oft he turns his truant eye, And pauses oft, and lingers near ; But when he marks the reddening... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...thee wrong, As, darkly painted on tho crimson aky, Thy figure floats along. Scck'st thou the plasLy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...way? Vainly the fowler's eye $ Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st...plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, 10 Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st...plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, PARNASSUS. Or where the rocking billows rise and sink Oн the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1875 - 458 pages
...Where woody slopes a valley leave, He sees what none but lover might, The dwelling of his Genevieve. : Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide. To A WATERFOWL p. 29. And oft he turns his truant eye, And pauses oft, and lingers near ; But when... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st...Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rock ing billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy... | |
 | English reader - 1875 - 202 pages
...fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink Oil the chafed ocean's side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...? Vainly the fbivler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to GO thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st...Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seck'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Suddenly, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side ? There is a Tower whose... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1881 - 44 pages
...good-naturedly pronounced " utterly abominable." Compare Hamlet iii, 1 : — As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st...plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, 10 Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care... | |
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