 | 1833 - 508 pages
...his fresh dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms reared to worship unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1834 - 428 pages
...save the piles of earth that bold their bones— Tbe platforms where they worshipped unknown god.— The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay ; till o'er the walls The wild beteagers broke— and one by one Tbe strong holds of Ihe plain were... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The1 gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that...they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay — till o'er the walls The wild beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 280 pages
...of other days 1 And did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion 1 All is gone ; All, save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipp'd unknown god?, The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay." The... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 306 pages
...All is gone ; All, save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipp'd unknown gods, The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay." The Prairies. THE antiquity of " Monk Mound" is a circumstance which fails not to arrest the attention... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that...they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay — till o'er the walls The wild beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipp'd unknown gods— The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay —... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipp'd unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay —... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...his fresh dug den Yawns by my path. The gophar mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone' — All', save the piles of earth that hold their bones' — The platforms', reared to worship unknown gods' — The barriers', which they builded from the soil, To keep the foe... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipp'd unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay —... | |
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Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone ; All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods, The barriers... 
