All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. The naturalist's poetical companion, with notes, selected by E. Wilson - Page 48by Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852Full view - About this book
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...or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? - * '" There is a Power whose care (,Teaches thy way along...illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. Jj All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1849 - 384 pages
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| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...nature with sentience and a capability of action, is one of the severest tests of the poet.] . . . .There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along...and illimitable air. Lone, wandering, but not lost.. . . . Pleasant shall be thy way, where weekly bows The shutting flowers and darkling waters pass, And... | |
| 1850 - 264 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...pathless coast,-— The desert and illimitable air, — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 380 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, • . At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, w.eary, to the welcome... | |
| William Francis Lynch - 1851 - 322 pages
...the cold, thin, atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome laud, Though the dark night is near. There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering — but not lost. Thou art gone — the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form." In those pure fields of ether, unvisited... | |
| S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 pages
...and terrible, without tracing that sublimity and beauty to a divine source; without feeling that " There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along...and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost." The divinities of Greece were not held by the people to be mere passive phantoms. They are supposed... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rooking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along...pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — -8 Lone- wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold,... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 542 pages
...billows rise and sink On the chaffed ocean side ; "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along the pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost " Thou'rt gone ! ihy abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form!" If few, they fly in one line, but... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost. 9 > All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
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