 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 276 pages
...about, — The Gate is barred against the world! Charles Warren ktoddard. Prairies, The. THE PRAIRIES. THESE are the Gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speecli of England has no name, — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells,... | |
 | 1881 - 410 pages
...profusion of its brilliant flora, that inspires the poet. Thus, to quote again from Bryant : — " These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. . . . Man hath no power in all this glorious work : The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...to breezy hills and valleys, and the undulating sea of the prairies — " the gardens of the desert, The unshorn fields boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name." The perpetual autumn of his writings is peculiar. They lead us to the margin of plains, broader than English... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...to breezy hills and valleys, and the undulating sea of the prairies — " the gardens of the desert, The unshorn fields boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name." The perpetual autumn of his writings is peculiar. They lead us to the margin of plains, broader than English... | |
 | 1882 - 658 pages
...which gracefully bent with every passing breeze, they possessed a charm that can never be forgotten. These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned— The prairies — I behold them for the first, And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1883 - 424 pages
...too is thine; It breathes of Him who keeps The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. THE PRAIRIES. THESE are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn...dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo I they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, Stood still,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1883 - 388 pages
...shore. New York, 18j1. "New York Mirror," November, 1831. THE PRAIRIES. / „ — .. / ^/ x THESE acfe the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields,...has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first,And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo ! they stretch,... | |
 | 1883 - 784 pages
...time it fills me with a sense of wild freedom as I look. " Those are the deserts of the gardon — these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful....of England has no name. The prairies! I behold them once again, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vostness. Lo ! they... | |
 | 1883 - 440 pages
...unshorn fields, boundless and beantiful, For which the speech of England has no name— The Prairics. 1 behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the eneircling vastness. Lol they stretch In airy undulations, far away, As if the ocean, in his gentlest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1883 - 528 pages
...line of ' The Prairies," strike me as feeble. I wish the commencement of that poem to stand thus : ' These are the gardens of the desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth ere man had sinned — * The prairies," etc. ' To sup upon the dead '... | |
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THESE are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name—- The Prairies. 
