 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 psl.
...better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Planting witli morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads... | |
 | 1877 - 900 psl.
...force which built cathedrals, temples, and pyramids : — " Knowest thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast, Or how the fish outbuilt its shell, Painting with morn each annual cell, Such and so grew these holy piles While love and terror... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 psl.
...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 4. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the...leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, While love and terror laid the tiles. 5. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 psl.
...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 4. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the...Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, While love and terror... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1879 - 474 psl.
...force which built cathedrals, temples, and pyramids : — Knowest thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast, Or how the fish outbuilt its shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ? Such and so grew these holy piles While love and terror... | |
 | 1885 - 650 psl.
...accordance with them, using them as our allies and helpers. So it is true, as Emerson says, that " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone," implying that the Parthenon is just as much part of the old earth of nature as any natural development... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 psl.
...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest 25 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the...sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? 30 Such and so grew these holy piles Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 536 psl.
...inspired to make his statue and to build the Parthenon. " Such and so grew those holy piles, While love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her /one, And morning opes in haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 psl.
...better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest mmer, In such an evil case, Struggle through moni each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so... | |
 | Heinrich Brugsch - 1880 - 268 psl.
...Iliad, of the Psalms, the ^Eueid, and the Inferno, — of Prometheus, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; " but in the thought that planned the Hall of Columns, or sculptured the rock temple of Amon, was... | |
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Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone... 
