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... The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With Lifeby George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1857 - 576 pagesSnippet view - About this book
| 1811 - 546 pages
...is great power, we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the following stanzas. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll V . But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
| 1812 - 560 pages
...of which the weary breast Would snll, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroliV. XXVI. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...is great power, we think, and great bitterness of soul, in the fallowing stan/as. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude 4 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But midst the crowd,... | |
| English literature - 1812 - 528 pages
...in the graces of unborrowed poetry, and appears in all the charms of originality. " To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. " But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 510 pages
...Mauritania's giant shadows frown, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...Mauritania's giant shadows frown, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, AVhere things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal...'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled. XXVI. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to... | |
| English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...frequently possess. Let us take, for example, the two following stanzas on solitude. ' To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foamiug falls to lean ;..,.. This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold „. Converse with nature's charms,... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...of which the weary breast Would stilli albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flsck that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...which the wear}' breast Would still, albeit in vain, the heavy heart divest. XXV. To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's...ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain ail unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;... | |
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