 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
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...mortifies ; A look that's fasten' d to the ground ; A tongue chain' d vp without a tound. Fountain head* 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 •vie feed... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 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 he fmds a dearer home than with men." " Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 pages
...mortifies, A look that's fasten'd on 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 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... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 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 dote... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 260 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 dote... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and almost he fears to trust them n',-, thunders woke The echo of the world. Where red Missouri briiigeth Rich tribute Fountain heads and pathless proves, Places which pale posalon loves. Moonlight walks, when all the... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 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 passing groan, These are the sounds we feed... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, 10 A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain-heads, and pathless groves, Places which...passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! 15 A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed... | |
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