 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 294 psl.
...parted with wavering arras of leaves, Cells for the passionate pleasure of prayer to the soul that grieves, Pure with a sense of the passing of saints...land. Inward and outward to northward and southward tha beach-lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - 1887 - 304 psl.
...ochre-stained sky has the semblance of a bar of gleaming sand. From behind the western mountains, "Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering...Inward and outward, to northward and southward, the beach lines linger and curl, , As a silver wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm, sweet... | |
 | Merrill Edwards Gates - 1887 - 42 psl.
...your favor soft, with a reverent hand, Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the Land, Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed sand, Free." And the passionate purity of his forest thoughts is seen in such lines as these : " To loiter down... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1891 - 316 psl.
...favor soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed...Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet limbs... | |
 | Constance Fenimore Woolson - 1899 - 352 psl.
...glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn. .... Free By a world of marsh that borders a world of sea....northward and southward the beach-lines linger and carl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm, sweet limbs of a girl. A league... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 psl.
...favor soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed...sand, Free By a world of marsh that borders a world Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering hand Of the sand-beach fastens the fringe of... | |
 | William Lander Weber - 1901 - 292 psl.
...favor soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed...the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land. 50 Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach-lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought... | |
 | William Lander Weber - 1903 - 286 psl.
...favor soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed...the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land. 50 Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach-lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought... | |
 | 1915 - 414 psl.
...Beyond His love and care." * An illustration from The Marshes of Glynn 5 may make the matter clearer. "Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering...Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet limbs... | |
 | John Jabez Lanier - 1902 - 304 psl.
...merciless miles of the plain, Oh, now, unafraid, I am fain to face The vast sweet visage of space : On the firm-packed sand, Free By a world of marsh that borders a world of sea. I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space twixt... | |
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So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, Thus with your favor soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land!) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed sand, Free By a world of marsh that... 
