 TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted...  The North American Review - 384 psl.1821Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 psl.
...mountain's brow, It vanishes from human eye, And that which sprang of earth is now TO A WATERFOWL. WHITHER, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do tbee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. • Seek'st thou the plashy... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 psl.
...: Thy cold clay—we grieve to bear it To its chamber—but we must. CI. TO A WATERFOWL.—Bryant. Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Vainly the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 psl.
...eloquent language of feeling. An unpretending beauty marks the following lines, " To a Waterfowl." " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Might mark thy distant flight to do thfe wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, '' Vainly the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 psl.
...marks a less original genius. An unpretending beauty marks the following lines, " To a Waterfowl." " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of-day, Far through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Might mark thy distant flight... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 874 psl.
...are frehil son, prince Henry, is told that in his quent themes of their speculation. To A WATER-FOWL. Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maize of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean's side ? There is... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1837 - 344 psl.
...that it is to one of these birds that Mr. Bryant's beautiful lines, to a water-fowl, are addressed. Whither) 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thon the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 psl.
...frehi» ton, prince Henry, is told that in his quent themes of their speculation. To A WATER-XOWL. Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thec wrong, As darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink... | |
 | 1837 - 232 psl.
...dew. While glow the heavens with tho last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost tliou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Or where the rocking billows rise and gink On the chafed ocean side? .* There is a Power whose care... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 psl.
...waterfowl, finely allude to this instinct of migration, and to the feelings it ever ought to inspire : — " Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? * * * * " There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 476 psl.
...the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depth dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? * See p. 370. Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaf'd ocean's side ? &c. This is a very sweet and, at the same time, a truly American picture. The... | |
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