 Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy...  Essays - Page 160by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mrs. J. Thayer - 1853 - 144 pages
...the wavcing grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent ; and he almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite. Yet nature soothes and sympathizes. In the green solitudes he finds a dearer home than with men. * * * * * The lover cannot paint the maiden to his... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...— A look that 's fastened to the ground — A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell — a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 pages
...mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale...passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent ; and almost he fears to trust llu'in with the secret which they seem to invite. Yet nature...green solitude he finds a dearer home than with men. Moontight walks, when all the fowls Are sak-ly housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, n passing... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and almost he fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite. Yet nature...green solitude he finds a dearer home than with men. Fountain heads and pathless proves, Places whlc-h pale potion love*. Moonlight walks, when all the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and almost he fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite. Yet nature soothes and sympathizes. In the green solitude lie finds a dearer home than with men. Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...that, piercing, modifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain' d up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless groves, — Places which...passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pages
...mortifies, A look that's fastcn'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed... | |
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