God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark whirlwind that uproots... Poems - Page 134by William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1824 - 494 pages
...rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in...God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament... | |
| 1825 - 574 pages
...solitudes Retire, and in tby presence reassure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at tby plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still....God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling tbunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament... | |
| 1825 - 492 pages
...rocks Around them ;— and there have heen holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence reassure My feehle virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremhle and are... | |
| 1826 - 192 pages
...rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in...God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament... | |
| 1826 - 524 pages
...rocks Around them ; — and there have been holy men Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in thy presence treasure My feeble virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...and rocks Around them ; and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in...plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God! when thoo Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...and rocks Around them ; and there have been holy men, Who deemed it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in...plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
| 1831 - 442 pages
...and rocks Around them. And there have been holy men, Who deem'd it were not well to pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and in...plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. O God! when Thou Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts,... | |
| 1837 - 790 pages
...order of our lives. Directness, boldness, and simplicity of expression, are main features in the poem. Oh God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests,...or fill With all the waters of the firmament The. swill dark whirlwind that uprools Ihe woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would... | |
| 1838 - 348 pages
...pass life thus. But let me often to these solitudes Retire, and, in thy presenee, re-assure My feehle virtue. Here its enemies, The passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink, And tremhle, and are still. O God ! when thou Dost ware the world with tempests, set on Iire The heavens... | |
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