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... Fly - Page 341839Full view - About this book
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way,2 Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the...Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rooking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way... | |
| John Frost - California - 1851 - 542 pages
...their flight, and the height to which they soar : " Vainly the fowler's eye, Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong; As darkly painted on the crimson sky. Thy figure floats along. "Seck'st thou the plashy brink, Of weedy lake, or merge of river wide ; Or where the rocking billows... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...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...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,— The desert... | |
| James Martineau - Hymns, English - 1852 - 544 pages
...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...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side ? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...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...sky, Thy figure floats along. Seek'st thou the plashy hrink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking hillows rise and sink On the chafed... | |
| Rosina Maria Zornlin - Geology - 1852 - 418 pages
...VIII. PERMIAN, OR MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE SYSTEM. Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or maze of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean tide ? Thou 'rt gone ! the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart... | |
| Birds - 1854 - 128 pages
...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...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean.side ? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...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...Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean's side ? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The... | |
| George Washington Bungay - United States - 1854 - 500 pages
...flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. " Seekest thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide ; Or, where the rocking billows rise and sint, On the chafed ocean side ? years afterwards, and forthwith commenced practice in the town of... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...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 sky, Thy figure floats along. Thou 'rt gone, th' abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet in my heart Deeply hath sunk the... | |
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