 And gentle sympathy that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make...  Advanced Readings and Recitations - Page 61by Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 450 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 452 pages
...oppressors. LV. Thanatopsis. — BRYANT. To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. For...Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall. And breathless darkness, and the narrow... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 pages
...paternal side I sprung, And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave — the beautiful and young. THANATOPSIS. To him who in the love of nature holds...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1841 - 296 pages
...mind, and blend with his very being. " To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware." The rising sun is in unison with the energy of man ; the kindling skies call forth his imagination... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - 1841 - 340 pages
...and of one who " holds communion with her visible forms," the poet observes, that to such an one, " She speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware." Phantasmion. — Page 166. 1 was not a little gratified, three years after my Table-Talk Notices of... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...| for his gayer hours, | She has a voice of glad'ness, | and a smile, And eloquence of beairty ; \ and she glides Into his darker musings | with a mild...the last bitter hour, ! come like a blight Over thy spirk ; | and sad images" Of the stern , agony,b | and shroud', \ and pall', \ And breathless dark/ness,... | |
 | 1842 - 506 pages
...cast, upon the mind, less apparent ; for " To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; —...darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steaU away Their sharpness, ere he is aware." Nature, in her gayer, as well as her sterner mood —... | |
 | Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - 1842 - 164 pages
...can there ' go forth and list to nature's teachings,' and you will find, my husband, that ' For man's gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.' A few months after, on a sweet summer's eve, when the elms cast their long shadows across the path... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...admiration than mastery of the intricacies of rhythm, and of the force and graces of expression. 126 127 THANATOPSIS. To him who in the love of nature holds...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1843 - 264 pages
...mind, and blend with his very being. " To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.'' The rising sun is in unison with the energy of man ; the kindling skies call forth his imagination... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...THANATOPSIS. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. To him who, in the love of nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for...she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter... | |
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