 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...— Comes a stiB voice : — • 3. Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no mere, In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where...Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. 4. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth agam ; And, lost each... | |
 | Industries - 1850 - 706 pages
...particularly to death, on which he discourses so sublimely here, as well as in his Ode to Death. " Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet the cold ground, Where thy pale form wa» laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...Thanatopsis" contains nothing new at all. It has beautiful movements of verse, as, for example, — " Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course." It has admirable touches of imaginative description, as that of, — " the continuous woods, Where... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 264 pages
...To Nature's teachings, while, from all around, / Earth and her waters and the depths of air, / Comes a still voice; — Yet a few days and thee / The allbeholding...sun shall see no more / In all his course; nor yet within the ground, / Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, /Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - Poetry - 1978 - 398 pages
...Nature's teachings, while from all around — 15 Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice. — Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding...ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, 20 Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - Social Science - 970 pages
...to immortality but the means by which man is united with the vast, timeless, and insensate universe: Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall...human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish... | |
 | Herrlee Glessner Creel - Philosophy - 1982 - 200 pages
...philosophers of antiquity to the New England poet, William Cullen Bryant, who wrote in "Thanatopsis" : Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth,...human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, thou shall go 19. Chuang-tzu, 7.26b; Legge, The Writings of Kwang-zze, II, 66-67; Wilhelm, Dschuang... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - Law - 1984 - 456 pages
...section of the poem is a dark vision of Nature's role in the destruction of man. Yet a few days, and thec The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his...Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to he resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt... | |
 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...house, the woods darkening behind him. Phrases moved with stately grace and rhythm through his mind. "Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again." He said the words aloud and was fascinated by the sound they made. "All that tread the globe are but... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice — Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding...embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourish'd thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace,... | |
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Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy... 
