 THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence,...  The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Pàgina 208per Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 318 pàgines
...firmament,— The boundless visible smile of Him, To the veil of Vhose brow your lamps are dim.'A FOREST HYMN. THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned...and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 320 pàgines
...temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pàgines
...and lies down to pleasant dreams. FOREST HYMN. THE groves were GOD'S first temples. Ere man learn'd To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them. — ere he frameJ The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1855 - 698 pàgines
...begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for a half hour, •In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication ' At the end of the half hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
 | 1855 - 654 pàgines
...devotional feeling which we everywhere find in Bryant : "The groves were God's first temples. Ere man turned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them i — ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pàgines
...speak, for we know that they will listen to us. " The groves were God's first temples. Ere man turned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them;—ere he framed The lofty vault to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pàgines
...shaft, and lay the architrave, [learned And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The loft; vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems...supplication. For his simple heart Might not resist the saored influences, That, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 432 pàgines
...the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour — ' In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' " ' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 754 pàgines
...begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour ' in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' At the end of the half hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 418 pàgines
...the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour — 1 In the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.' " ' At the end of half an hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer... | |
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