 | 1826 - 192 pages
...speak of thee. This mighty oak— By whose immoveable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated—not a prince, In all the proud old world beyond the deep,...which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root la beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...Grandeur, strength, and grace, By whose immoveable stem I stand, and seem Almost annihilated—not a prince, In all the proud old world beyond the deep,...which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare With scented... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pages
...left Thyself without a witness, in these shades, Of thy perfections. Grandeur, strength, and grac* Are here to speak of thee. This mighty oak — By...his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare ( 'f the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems,... | |
 | 1838 - 348 pages
...Almost aunihilated — not a prinee, In all the proud old world heyond the deep, E'er wore his erown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves...which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root s heauty, such as hlooms not in the glare r the hroad sun. That delicate forest flower, h scented hreath,... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...speak of thee. This mighty oak— By whose immovable stem I stand, and seem Almost annihilated—not a prince, In all the proud old world beyond the deep,...which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare With scented... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 418 pages
...— By whose immovable stem I stand, and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all the prond old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as...root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of (he broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...Children." " " ^fot a prince In all that proud old world beyond the deep Ere wore his crown so lofiily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves, with which Thy hand has graced him ;" and those of our poet, " who gemm'd thy zone with stars, Around thee threw his own cerulean robe,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...annihilated — not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as lofty as he Wears the green coronal of leaves, with which Thy hand has graced him. 6. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 286 pages
...oak — By whose immoveable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown...with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his rot.Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flowet With scented... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1844 - 250 pages
...mighty oak, By whose immovable stem I stand, and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown...coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him." Bryant. Monarch of all this world of shade, Of full-leaved trees, on hill, in glade, There separate,... | |
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Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould... 
