 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 750 pages
...mighty oak — By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown...as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which fo Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at . his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the... | |
 | James Raymond Simmons - 1919 - 242 pages
...Shrewsbury. The circumference is about 15 feet. C82] CHAPTER XVI THE GRAFTON OAK — not a prince In all that proud old world beyond the deep E'er wore his crown...coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Bryant WHILE the Patriots in Boston were rallying beneath the branches of Liberty Tree and the Great... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...oak — ss By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into...its heat. 8o He has left the village and mounted the 6o Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...mighty oak — By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that e; 50 60 Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...oak — 55 By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown...as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which во Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss - 1975 - 534 pages
...mighty oak — By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep. E'er wore his crown as loftily as he. . . . —"A Forest Hymn," 1825. BRYANT'S RELIEF AT SAILING FOR EUROPE in June 1834 was evident in earlier... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 pages
...mighty oak — By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as loftily as he m Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty,... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 pages
...mighty oak, By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated - not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown...as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves. In 1849, Asher B. Durand painted his famous double portrait, Kindred Spirits, in which William Cullen... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1907 - 536 pages
...mighty oak By whose immovable stem I stand and seem Almost annihilated — not a prince In all that proud old world beyond the deep E'er wore his crown...coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him." This old oak has witnessed all the mighty transformations of this great commonwealth. The Irresistible... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 538 pages
...of from one hundred and fifty to at least one hundred and eighty feet. " Not a prince, In all that proud old world beyond the deep, E'er wore his crown as loftily, as he Wears his green coronal of leaves.'1 The White Pine is, par excellence, a New England tree, and has ever... | |
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Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould... 
