That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific: have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown... The Winter Evening Book - Page 267by William Chambers - 1837 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
| James George Needham - 1914 - 356 pages
...disk was falling. — Richard Wightman. PART II STUDIES FOR THE SPRING TERM XVII. THE LAY OF THE LAND "The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And...glory and whose multitude Rival the constellations." — Bryant (The Prairies). Chief of all land laws is the law of gravity. The solid crust of the earth... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1914 - 400 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this ? Man hath no part in all this glorious work : The hand that built the...And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor For... | |
| 1919 - 966 pages
...glide Into the calm Pacific: Have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no part onditions might have won a larger place among the poets. STANZAS My life i 2 S And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island... | |
| Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 568 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no power in all this glorious work: The hand that built the...smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes IAMBIC PENTAMETER 187 With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests.... | |
| Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1923 - 566 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no power in all this glorious work: The hand that built the...And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slope? With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no power he new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the...timid grace, She felt his pleased eyes read her face. 30 Rival the constellations! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love, — A nearer... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...Into the calm Pacific — have ye- fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no power in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved 25 And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1903 - 606 pages
...hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slope? With herbage, planted them with island groves, And...magnificent temple of the sky — With flowers whose glory s»ud whose multitude Rival the constellations ! The great heavens Seem to stoop down upon the scene... | |
| Perry Miller - 2009 - 260 pages
...anywhere in their progress from the equator they have fanned a nobler scene than this. Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the...sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island-groves, And hedged them round with forests. Goethe might insist in ancient Germany that he devoted... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
..."first time;" and either a grammatical or typographical error of moment in the fine sentence commencing one of the most unaccountable things in the world....little possibility of variety in mere rhythm, it is Earth, a poem of similar length and construction to The Prairies, embodies a noble conception. The... | |
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