 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air...  Emerson as a Poet - Page 35by Joel Benton - 1883 - 134 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...highest moods. Who will doubt the identity of art and nature after the authoritative annunciation : " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his... | |
 | 1848 - 602 pages
...stature of the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the...zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze npon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 346 pages
...stature of the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says— . " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the...opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; JOHN MILTON. 1 7 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye; For out of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opea with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's Abbeys bonds. the sky As on iU friends... | |
 | 164 pages
...old leaves new myriads? Such, and so grew these holy piloe, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...her zone ; And morning opes, with haste, her lids To gnze upon the Pyramids : O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ;... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. He builded better than he knew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hymn. At the completion of the Concord Monument. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - 408 pages
...stature of the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — • " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; Arid morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...lines that sing themselves now through the whole cultivated mind of our country : — ]•:•)) ih proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone; And Morning opes with haste her lids, To gnze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends a kindred eye; For out... | |
 | Thomas Chase - 1863 - 232 pages
...violence, I could hardly have escaped without the terrible penalty of a Greek fever. THE RUINS OF ATHENS. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 796 pages
...old leaves new myriads ? Sucli and so grew these holy pil«s, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with baste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends with... | |
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