 To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never...  Poems - Page 534by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 719 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...for no companions, for he feels no solitude. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, Slowly to trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. * But let this tranquillity be broken in upon by any of the agreeable passions,... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...tear; A flashing pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...Alone o'er steeps and foaming! falls to lean: This ia not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd. But... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...tear; A flashing pang ! of which the weary breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divert. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...mountain all unseen. With the wild flock that never need« a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming] falls to lean: This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...Jesus spake, well might his language be, ' Suffer these little ones to come to me !' Rogers. SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,... | |
 | Scotland - 1828 - 1538 pages
...blue and cloudless sky, delighting in my loneliness, and in the glorious silent majesty of nature— " To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled." I believe I ought here rather to have quoted Wordsworth than Lord Byron,... | |
 | Alexander Laing - 1828 - 492 pages
...that own not man's dominion dwell, And human foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To range the pathless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'ii. ScoUnum. Before this stone Res Robert Lumsden of Cushnay, and John Lumsden... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly irate the forest's sh.idy ficen?, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And...climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild (lock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er sleep» and foaming falls to lean — This i* not solitude... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...replied the Mourner, "She who broke My honds, shall never wear a stranger'* joke." SOLITUDE. SOLITUDE. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores uuroll'd. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
 | George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...rest, till many a flower Shew Flora's triumph o'er the falling tower." CftABBB. ORDER VII. FUNGI. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly...climb the trackless mountain all unseen. With the wild-flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...mountains loved to scan, And from the crest of Alps peruse the mighty plan. 'Tis ecstasy "to brood o'er flood and fell," " To slowly trace the forest's...the trackless mountain all unseen, -With the wild flocks that never need a fold; Alone o'er steeps, and foaming falls to lean; — This is not solitude... | |
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