 | Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown - 1976 - 400 pages
...history along that stream. 11. The Cold Sick Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls...sound Save his own dashings; yet the dead are there. William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsh I T WAS THE practice of mariners entering the Columbia River to sometimes... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pages
...morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness,2 Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon,3 and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet...there: And millions in those solitudes, since first M The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.... | |
 | Ralph Friedman - 1978 - 324 pages
...titled Bashings oj Oregon, a suggestion that came from Bryant's inspirational lines in "Thanatopsis": Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings . . . But the volume "never saw the light of publication day," wrote Fidler. "The printing-house that... | |
 | 1981 - 360 pages
...Oregon was popularized by the American poet William Cullen Bryant in 1817 in his poem "Thanatopsis:" "Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save its own dashings." Popular references to the Oregon country led in 1848 to designation of the Pacific... | |
 | 1966 - 272 pages
...is in each of the State's main physical subdivisions. 14 RIVER BASINS OF OREGON COLUMBIA RIVER * * * the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings * * * — William Cullen Bryant When the young poet composed the sonorous lines of "Thanatopsis" in... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...sky and list — is sadly out of place amid the forcible and even Miltonic rhythm of such lines as " }v9} Oregan. But these arc trivial faults indeed, and the poem embodies a great degree of the most elevated... | |
 | Edwin D. Culp - 1987 - 204 pages
...once called "the Oregon.' This is the river which Bryant mentions in his immortal poem, Thanatopsis: Or lose thyself in the continuous woods, Where rolls...Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there. The navigable rivers of Oregon were the roadways for the early explorers of the West. If the magnitude... | |
 | Virgil J. Vogel - 1991 - 348 pages
...called it "Oregon or Columbia." In 1817 William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis" contained the lines "or lose thyself in the continuous woods / where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound." John Wyeth (1832) wrote of the "Oregon river whence the territory takes its name."16 The name Oregon... | |
 | Aldo Leopold - 1992 - 400 pages
...are necessarily knottier than those offered by lumberman Y, who is still skinning the illimitable (?) woods where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound save his own dashings. Which board do you buy? Should you buy the honest board, even at a higher price? Simple, but really... | |
 | Nelson A. Miles - 1992 - 298 pages
...Columbia, which once bore the name of Oregon, that Bryant refers in his poem "Thanatopsis" when he says: " Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save its own dashings — yet the dead are there." After passing the bar and entering the river one is reminded... | |
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The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom — Take the wings Of morning — and the Barcan... 
