 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 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...outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual coll I Or how the sacred pine-tree adils To her old leaves new myriads ? Snch and so grew these holy... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 psl.
...to beauty grew. Know*st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast c Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell I Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriada f Such and so grew these holy piles,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 psl.
...that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. He builded better than he knew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hymn. At the completion of the Concord Monument. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the... | |
 | 1857 - 448 psl.
...and rapture. "Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast t Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting, with...leaves new myriads ? Such, and so grew these holy piloe, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Kurili proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - 408 psl.
...works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — • " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; Arid morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the... | |
 | Thomas Chase - 1863 - 232 psl.
...violence, I could hardly have escaped without the terrible penalty of a Greek fever. THE RUINS OF ATHENS. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 796 psl.
...what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her l>reust ? Or how the fish outbuilt ber shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how...sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Sucli and so grew these holy pil«s, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 psl.
...dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. The Problem. He builded better than he knew. ibid. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Ibid. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Hymn. At the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 psl.
...»tone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leave«, and feathers from lier breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell Í Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads Í Such and so grew these holy piles,... | |
 | 1868 - 450 psl.
...thanksgiving, is the child of enthusiasm and rapture. "Know.st thou what wove yon wood-bird.i nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting , with morn, eaoh annual coll ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such, and so grew... | |
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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... 
