 Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling...  The United States Literary Gazette - Page 291825Full view - About this book
 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pages
...first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and good. CHAPTER ON FLOWERS. THAT delicate field flower, With scented breath and look so like a smile,...upholding love, That are the soul of this wide Universe. SMALL BINDWEED. THE Bind-weed, pare and pale, That sues to all for aid, And when rude storms assail... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves, with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare ( 'f the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems,... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty,...upholding Love That are the soul of this wide universe.' — pp. 29, 30. It is impossible not to recognize in these lines a certain degree of poetic power,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1833 - 594 pages
...impressions of Vegetable nature — ' This mighty Oak, By whose immoveable stem I stand — ------ Nestled at his root Is BEAUTY: such as blooms not...it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of th' indwelling life ; A visible token of th' upholding love, Which are the soul of this wide universe.'... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby, William Jardine - Botany - 1837 - 664 pages
...trunks that high in heaven mingle their mossy boughs," the peculiarity of the carpet underneath, " Beauty such as blooms not in the glare of the broad sun," would form pictures strong in contrast with the rich and broad foliage of the tropics, their profuse... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 pages
...boughs,' give to them both perpetual benedictions. They alike feel that even ' The delicate forest-flower Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life ; ' while the trees in their presence ' stand like Druids of eld, their beards resting upon their bosoms,'... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1841 - 418 pages
...beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal, of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of (he broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...his crown as lofty as he Wears the green coronal of leaves, with which Thy hand has graced him. 6. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not...like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mold, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty,...Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With delicate breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 286 pages
...loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his rot.Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flowet With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless 'mould,... | |
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