... way, Blue skies, and silver clouds, and gentle winds, — The swelling upland, where the sidelong sun Aslant the wooded slope, at evening, goes, — Groves, through whose broken roof the sky looks in, Mountain, and shattered cliff, and sunny vale,... The Bowdoin Poets - Page 2by Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...lake—fountains—*id mighty trees— Their old poetic legends to the wind. In many a lazy syllable repeating And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world;...in these wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft imbodies it, As a bright image of the light and beauty That dwell in nature—of the heavenly forms... | |
| American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...shattered cliff—and sunny vale— Their old poetic legends to the wind. In many a lazy syllable repeating And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world...in these wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft imbodies it, We worship in our dreams, and the soft hues That lie i' the wild bird's wing, and flush... | |
| 1839 - 430 pages
...and tunny vale — the distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, re jcating in many a lay syllable their old poetic legends to the wind. And this is the sweet spirit that fills the world ; which busy fancy, in the wayward days of youth, often embodies as a bright image... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...The distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, In many a lazy syllable, repeating Their old poetical legends to the wind. And this is the sweet spirit...in these wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft imbodies it, As the bright image of the light and beauty That dwell in nature, of the heavenly forms... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, 6 In many a lazy syllable, repeating Their old poetical legends to the wind. And this is the sweet spirit...wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft embodies it,. 10 AS the bright image of the light and beauty That dwell in nature, of the heavenly forms We worship... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...the soft hues That stain the wild bird's wing, and flush the clouds When the sun sets. Within her eye And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world...wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft embodies it, 15 The heaven of April, with its changing light, And when it wears the blue of May, is hung, And on... | |
| 430 pages
...the sky looks in ; Mountain, and shattered cliff, and sunny vale, The distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, In many a lazy syllable repeating Their old poetic legends to ihe wind ; for we know from the collected experience, each of himself, of many of his class, that the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...sky looks in, Mountain, and shattered cliff", and sunny vale, The distant lake, fountains, — and mighty trees, In many a lazy syllable, repeating Their...in these wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft imbodies it, Asa bright image of the light and beauty That dwell in nature, — of the heavenly forms... | |
| Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, In many a lazy syllable, repeating 85 Their old poetical legends to the wind. And this is the sweet spirit...wayward days of youth, My busy fancy oft embodies it, As the bright image of the light and beauty 40 That dwell in nature, of the heavenly forms We worship... | |
| Derk Buddingh - American literature - 1853 - 842 pages
...— Mountain — nnd shattered eliff — and sunny vale — The distant lake — fountains —• and mighty trees — In many a lazy syllable repeating...doth fill The world; and, in these wayward days of yonth, My busy faney oft embodies it, As a bright image of the light and beanty That dweil in nature.... | |
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