... to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold;... The Christian Observer - Page 5031832Full view - About this book
| Edmund Patten - 1853 - 162 pages
...unseen, "With the wild flock, that never needs a fold ; Now o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean : This is not solitude ! 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd." This locality is very appropriately called the Highland scenery of the river... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her etorcs unroll'd. I XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. But midst the. crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
| Lelia Hardin Bugg - 1895 - 364 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock, that never needs a fold; Alone, o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; — This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled . ' ' — Byron. Heroic Measure is the iambic pentameter. It is peculiarly... | |
| Mary Anderson - 1896 - 308 pages
...scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been. ***** This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled." CHAPTER XI ACTORS and orators have pre-eminently the power of discovering the characteristics... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and loaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - 326 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foamy falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. Childe Harold WE travelled eastward for two days, and then the gloomy ridges... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foamy falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. ChiUe Harold WE travelled eastward for two days, and then the gloomy ridges... | |
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