 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seekst thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. TO A WATERFOWL. 59. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ;... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seekst thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows...pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 548 pages
...lake, or marge of river wide, Or where tiie rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphtrt ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 556 pages
...problem is solved ! This is doubtless an island, but a continent is near. Laud be to God !" CHAPTER VI. "There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along...illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost" BRYANT. THE two or three hours that succeeded, were hours of an extraordinary and intense interest.... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. 3 Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the Chafed ocean-side 1 4 There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink, On the chafed ocean's side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...when the proper time comes round,) and revisit their retreats ; their - plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide ; Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chaf 'd ocean side." But how do the tenants of the sea, the ocean-born animals, the whales, the porpoises,... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1841 - 376 pages
...darkly painted on the crimson sky Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows...pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary,... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - Bible - 1841 - 362 pages
...Jesus, in his address to the Water- fowl: — " There te a Power -whose care Teaches thy way alnng that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. " Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - Language and languages - 1842 - 216 pages
...of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink . > On the chafed ocean-side ? 'the bere is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless...Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though... | |
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There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost, All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome... 
