 | Pierce Egan - Sports - 1832 - 432 pages
...While glow the heaveni with the lait steps of day. Far, through their rosy depths, do»t thou ponue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong At, darkly paiuted on the crimson sky Thy figure tinats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...rapidity of the first. How perfectly and inimitably descriptive are the last two of the following lines. " Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along." The extracts we have made give, we think, a tolerablycorrect idea of Bryant's genius. The volume contains... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...wraps the drapery of his eoueh About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. WHTTHEB, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the erimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...American poet, are so much to the purpose that they need no excuse for their insertion. TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way 1 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As darkly painted on the... | |
 | 1835 - 562 pages
...cannot refrain from extracting it as a second specimen of this favourite poet. ' To A WATERFOWL. ' Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue The solitary way ? ' Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...distinctly for a considerable time along the Hammersmith-road. The shadows of evening were lengthening, and midst falling dew, While glow the Heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths it did pursue Its solitary way."* SPITAL SERMONS. In London, on Easter Monday and Tuesday, the Spital... | |
 | English essays - 1835 - 736 pages
...before us. We will find room for a specimen or two. To a Waterfowl. Bryant, p. S. Whither, 'midst the falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, [pursue Far through their rosy depths, dost thou Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye [thee wrong,... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...thou may'st remember the flake of snow, By the promise that God hath given." GoVLP. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake or margin of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. There is... | |
 | Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...ordained to prove Our faith in heav'n's unfailing love And all-controlling pow'r. TO A WATER-FOWL. BRYANT. WHITHER 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maze of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is... | |
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TO A WATERFOWL Whither, 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... 
