 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pàgines
...thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL. Whither, 'midst falling dew', While...mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong. As, darkly limn'd upon the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of -weedy lake,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pàgines
...philosopher and the poet. Bryant expresses the thoughts they suggest in the following beautiful stanzas : " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? " Yainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,, As, darkly painted on... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - 386 pàgines
...lingers near ; But when he marks the reddening sky. He bounds away to hunt the deer. TO A WATERFOWL. E, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the...of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou persue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As,... | |
 | Christian Church - 1859 - 524 pàgines
...the skies for ever bright. 649. BRYANT. The water-fowl. " Ttiere is a path which no fowl Ienoweth." 1 WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thoa pursue Thy solitary way ? 2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 pàgines
...intense emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While.../ Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, / Thy figure floats along. / Thou'rt... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 pàgines
...intense emotion. The manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pàgines
...mind, and a fine sense of effect in throwing its figure on the back ground of the "crimson sky," amid the pricks of nettles' But the merits which possibly have had most weight in the public estimation of the poem, are the melody... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1991 - 942 pàgines
...himself of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pàgines
...grave, so Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 1817 TO A WATERFOWL \ Whither, midst falling dew, While...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? 5 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the... | |
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