 | David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...most finished, perfect pieces. It is well known, but will bear reading again and again. TO A WATERFOWL Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong As, darkly painted on... | |
 | Catherine Anne Hubback - 1855 - 336 pages
...Annie Garden unconsciously broke the silence which prevailed, by repeating in a suppressed tone, " Whither 'midst falling dew While glow the heavens...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue, Thy solitary way !" ' Oh ! please go on," exclaimed Mrs. wdbridge, " I remember thinking that m so beautiful, repeat... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their hazy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way. Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight...figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of reedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pages
...not of earth, Just opening in their early hirth, Like that new light in heaven." TO A WATERFOWL. " Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 262 pages
...manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow the heavens...their rosy depths dost thou pursue / Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant ftight, to do thee wrong, / As, darkly seen... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - Antiques & Collectibles - 1977 - 262 pages
...manuscript illustrated is one that Bryant copied out in the last year of his life. To a Waterfowl. Whither, midst falling dew, / While glow the heavens...day / Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue I Thy solitary way? / Vainly the fowler's eye / Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong, /... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - Poetry - 1978 - 398 pages
...thee nor will let thee pass Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace. (1815; 1817) TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye s Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...himself of the vestiges of the fight, and proceeded to obey the repeated and earnest call. Chapter XXXIV. "Whither, 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Brvant, "To a Waterfowl," 11. 1-4. WHEN THE YOUNG SEAMAN, who now commanded the frigate, descended... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaBoBe; FaFP; LiTA; NAAL-1; NOBA; OBEY; OHFP; OxBA; PWR; TAP; TrGrPo; WBLP; WGRP To a Waterfowl 25 @ way! (1. 2—4) 73 POETRY QUOTATIONS 74 26 There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens...through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on... | |
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Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson... 
